COLONEL    JAMES    A.    Sl'ITER  — 


A  BRIEF  HISTORY 


OF    THE 


THIRTY-FOURTH  REGIMENT 

N.  Y.  S.  V. 

EMBRACING 

A  COMPLETE    ROSTER  OF 
ALL  OFFICERS  AND  MEN 

AND    A    FULL   ACCOUNT    OF   THE 

DEDICATION    OF    THE    MONUMENT    ON    THE 
BATTLEFIELD  OF   ANTIETAM 

SEPTEMBER  //,   1902 
WITH  NUMEROUS  ILLUSTRATIONS 


B  Y 


LIEUTENANT    L.    N.    CHAPIN 


"  PATRIOTISM  IS  SUCH  A  LOVING  SENSE  OF  THE  UNITY  AND  THE  VITALITY  OF  THE  NATIONAL  LIFE  AS  WILL  LEAD  ONE 
GLADLY  TO  OBEY  THE  LAW,  TO  GUARD  ITS  DIGNITY,  TO  AID  IN  ITS  ENFORCEMENT,  TO  EXERCISE  A  NOBLE  SELF-RESTRAINT,  TO 
CULTIVATE  CIVIC  VIRTUES  AND  POLITICAL  WISDOM,  TO  SACRIFICE,  TO  SUFFER,  AND,  IF  NEED  BE,  TO  DIE  FOR  THE  COUNTRY." 


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It  was  during  the  administration  of  the  following 
officers  of  the  Veteran  Association  of  the  Thirty-fourth 
Regiment  Volunteer  Infantry.  State  of  New  York,  and 
between  the  years  1895-1002,  that  the  Monument  was 
erected  on  Antietarr.  Battlefield,  and  this  History  was 
written : 

PRESIDENT: 
COL.  JAMES  A.  SUITER. 

FIRST  VICE-PRESIDENT: 
MAJ.  WELLS  SPONABLE. 

SECOND  VICE-PRESIDENT: 
QUARTER  MASTER  NATHAN  EASTERBROOK,  JR. 

THIRD  VICE-PRESIDENT: 
CAPT.  IRVING  D.  CLARK. 

SECRETARY: 
JESSE  R.  FORT, 
Little  Falls,   N.  Y. 

CORRESPONDING  SECRETARY 

JAMES  N.  GREENE, 

Fairfield,  N.  Y. 

COMMITTEE  ON  FRECTION  OF  MONUMENT  ON  THE 
BATTLEFIELD  OF  ANIIETAM. 

CHAIRMAN: 

NATHAN  EASTERBROOK,  JR., 
New  Haven,  Conn. 

TREASURER: 
WELLS  SPONABLE, 
Morris  Heigh ts.N.Y. 

SECRETARY: 

LOUIS  N.  CHAPIN, 

Hotel  Margaret,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


WHY  THIS  HISTORY  WAS  WRITTEN 


MANY  times  in  the  progress  of  this  work  I  have  been  asked  the 
question,  and,  in  fact,  have  asked  it  of  myself,  why  bestow  so 
much  time  and  labor,  and  even  money,  so  long  after  the  war, 
in  the  preparation  of  such  a  narra 
tive?     What  fresh  contribution  to 
American    history   can   you   expect 
to  make  ?    What  hitherto  unknown 
sources  of  information  can  you  ex 
pect  to  discover?     Has  not  every 
important  fact  been  stated  long  ago, 
and  many  times  over? 

These  are  formidable  ques 
tions  ;  but,  in  spite  of  them,  some 
thing  still  remains  undone,  unsaid 
and  unwritten.  When  the  good 
Queen  of  England  wished  to  thank 
a  man  for  some  noble  deed  done 
for  the  glory  of  her  empire,  she 
did  not  deem  it  sufficient  that  every 
paper  in  the  land  had  proclaimed 
his  praise ;  but  she  called  the  hero 
to  her  side,  and  took  him  by  the 
hand,  and  called  him  by  his  name, 
and  thanked  him  for  what  he  had 
done,  in  right  good  earnest.  That, 
perhaps,  indicates  the  purpose  and 
nature  of  this  little  history.  Vocif 
erous  adulations,  scattered  broad 
cast,  do  not  go  home  like  a  hand- 
to-hand  clasp,  and  a  heart-to-heart 
talk.  Hence  the  design  of  this  vol 
ume  is,  to  bestow  an  honorable 
mention  on  each  particular  man  of 
this  particular  regiment.  The  vet 
eran,  scarred  band,  is  summoned 
for  a  final  muster.  Out  of  the 

cloudy  lands,  in  which,  through  forty  years  of  human  vicissitude,  men 
wander,  and  are  lost,  the  comrades  are  summoned  for  a  last  parade,  and 
a  final  muster,  on  the  heights  of  time ;  once  more  we  call  them  all  by 
name;  and  again  recount  their  distinguished  services,  their  patriotism 
and  their  valor.  Alas,  it  is  a  scanty  muster.  In  vain  the  drum  beats, 
and  the  evening  bugles  sound.  There  are  many  who  do  not  respond. 
Captain,  where  are  your  men?  Sir,  all  are  present,  or  accounted 
for.  They  have  crossed  the  river  on  the  swaying  bridge  at  Fair 


LIEUT.    L.    X.    CHAPIX 


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6  WHY  THIS   HISTORY  WAS  WRITTEN 

Oaks,  and  they  have  not  returned.  They  have  passed  down  the 
valley  of  Falmouth,  and  climbed  the  heights  of  Fredericksburg, 
and  thence  have  vanished  in  chariots  of  fire.  They  have  never  returned 
to  the  old  camp  ground.  And  at  the  little  Dunkard  Church  of  Antie- 
tam  their  eulogies  have  been  pronounced.  Their  white  tents  glisten  on 
another  shore.  Alas,  it  is  a  scanty  muster. 

Comrades,  this  is  your  book.  Your  names  are  in  it,  every  one.  It 
does  not  seek  to  recite  the  whole  story  of  the  war.  But  it  seeks  to  re 
visit  the  scenes  where  once  your  lives  were  in  such  deadly  peril ;  to 
once  more  put  your  feet  into  the  same  tracks,  and  to  again  remind  you 
of  the  many  scenes,  incidents  and  hardships  you  ought  not  to  forget. 
Those  old  roads  may  now  be  retraveled,  and  those  old  camps  and  battle 
fields  revisited,  without  the  danger  of  encountering  any  foe. 

And  I  have  not  only  had  in  mind  to  make  praiseworthy  mention 
of  all  the  members  of  the  regiment,  but  also  to  give  their  names  a  sure 
footing  for  all  time  to  come.  Granite  will  crumble ;  iron  will  rust ; 
wood  will  decay ;  and  nothing  in  this  world  is  very  stable ;  but,  so  far 
as  lay  in  my  power,  I  have  tried  to  fix  the  records  of  these  comrades  in 
an  enduring  form  and  place. 

Comrades,  some  of  you  now  deem  your  military  record  to  have 
been  of  little  moment.  But  that  is  because  you  see  so  much  of  the  dross 
of  it,  atid  so  little  of  its  clear  shining  truth.  Time  clears  away  the  one, 
and  leaves  the  other  standing  strong  and  fair.  Underneath  all  the  dis 
tress  and  vexation  of  your  service,  is  the  eternal  truth  on  which  you 
fought  and  marched.  And  your  children,  and  your  children's  children, 
down  through  long  descending  lines,  will  see  all  this  much  more  clearly 
than  you  do.  Each  one  of  these,  in  times  remote,  when  history  shall  re 
count  her  noble  sons,  can  stand  and  say,  with  a  just  pride :  "My  father, 
too,  was  a  soldier  in  the  great  war,  and  I  have  the  volume  which  gives 
his  name,  and  tells  his  story." 

Louis  N.  CHAPIN. 

NEW  YORK,  JANUARY,  1903. 


ERRATUM. — Top  of  page  96:  "Was  it  for  this  the  First  Minnesota  was  being  saved  up  at 
Antietam,  where  it  scarcely  lost  a  man'"  This  should  read  "Fair  Oaks,"  instead  of  Antietam. 
Colonel  Sully,  of  the  First  Minnesota,  in  his  report  of  the  battle  of  Fair  Oaks,  makes  no  mention 
of  any  losses  whatever;  but  elsewhere  it  is  officially  reported  that  the  regiment  had  two  enlisted 
men  killed  and  two  wounded.  At  Antietam,  however,  it  took  435  men  into  action;  had  16  men 
killed,  79  wounded,  and  24  missing.  Captain  Holzborn  was  among  the  killed. 


CONTENTS 


CHAPTER  I. 
A  Story  of  Beginnings 9 

CHAPTER  II. 
Off  to  the  Front.     Camp  Kalorama.     Camp  Jackson 19 

CHAPTER  III. 
Edward's    Ferry.     Ball's   Bluff.     Winter   at   Camp   McClellan.        25 

CHAPTER  IV. 
Moving  at  Last.     Opening  of  the  Baltimore  and  Ohio  Railroad.      31 

CHAPTER  V. 
The  Peninsular  Campaign 35 

CHAPTER  VI. 

The  Battle  of  Fair  Oaks :  .  .  .  4* 

CHAPTER  VII. 
The  Seven  Days'  Battles 48 

CHAPTER  VIII. 
Leaving  the   Peninsula.      Harrison's   Landing  at  Antietam .  .  .  .      56 

CHAPTER  IX. 
The  Battle  of  Antietam 61 

CHAPTER  X. 
From  Antietam  to  Fredericks  burg 71 

CHAPTER  XI. 
The  Battle  of  Fredericksburg 79 

CHAPTER  XII. 
Winter  in  Camp.     Second  Fredericksburg 85 

CHAPTER  XIII. 

Going  Home 94 

That    Western    Flotilla ••  98 

Since  the  War,  with  Biographical  Sketches 99 

Post  Office  Addresses  of  Known  Survivors in 

Officers  of  the  Regiment,  with  the  Order  of  Their  Promotion  ...  113 

Complete  Roster  of  the  Tlvrty-fourth  Regiment 115 

The    Dedication  •  155 

Official  Reports 185 


LIST  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS 


PAGE 

Colonel  James  A.  Suiter FRONTISPIECE 

Lieutenant  L.  N.  Chapin,  the  Author 5 

Colonel  William  Ladew    9 

Captain  Henry  Baldwin 13 

Captain  Monroe  Brundage 17 

Camp  McClellan 26 

Captain  Thomas  Corcoran,  1865   28 

Colonel  Byron  Laflin,  1863  and  Late  in  Life 32,  33 

Captain  Irving  D.  Clark,  1862,  1903 38 

Captain  William  S.  Walton,  1863,  1900 39 

Fair  Oaks,  The  Adams  House  and  "  Our  Field,"  The  Williamsburg  Road.  .  .  42 

Tucker's  Spring,  and  the  Spring  at  Keedysville 45 

Lieutenant  Colonel  John  Beverly,  1863,  1900 50,  51 

Captain  John  O.  Scott,  1861,  1900 54 

Captain  Emerson  S.  Northup,  1861,  1902    55 

Captain  Davis  J.  Rich,  Civilian 57 

Major  Wells  Sponable,  1861,  1903     59 

Antietam,  Battlefield  Morning  after  the  Battle 61 

Lieutenant  William  R.  Wallace,  1863 62 

Antietam,  Bloody  Lane,   1862,   1902 63 

Lieutenant  Henry  W.  Sanford,  1903 64 

Antietam,  View  of  Hagerstown  Pike,  South  of  Dunkard  Church,  General 

View  of  "  Our  Field,"  from  Our  Monument 66 

Antietam,  View  of  Dunkard  Church  and  Our  Monument,  from  "Our  Field."  68 

Antietam,  Burnside's  Bridge,  1902 71 

Harper's  Ferry,  Va.,  A  Recent  Picture 72 

Quartermaster  Nathan  Easterbrook,  Jr.,  1861,  1903   74,  75 

Captain  Eugene  B.  Larrowe,  1863    76 

Falmouth,  Our  Old  Camp  Ground,  as  it  Looks  at  Present 77 

Falmouth,  Colonel  Laflin's  Headquarters 78 

Captain  William  L.  Oswald,  1861 79 

Fair  Oaks,  The  Adams  House 81 

Falmouth,  The  Woodman  House,   Looking  Down  the  Falmouth  Valley, 

The  Marye  Mansion,  Marye's  Heights,  Fredericksburg 81 

Colonel  George  W.  Thompson,  Our  First  Adjutant,  1861,  1903 83 

Falmouth,  Lieutenant  Colonel  Beverly's  Headquarters    87 

The   Colors    89 

Lieutenant  John  Oathout,  1863   90 

General  Alfred  Sully,  1862 91 

Captain  Benjamin  H.  Warford,  1863   93 

Adjutant  John  Kirk,  1863 94 

Surgeon,  Socrates  N.  Sherman,  1861   95 

Assistant  Surgeon,  Edward  S.  Walker,  1862,  or  after 102 

General  John  B.  Van  Petten,  Our  First  Chaplain 104 

Captain  Joy  E.  Johnson,  1863 106 

Captain  Charles  Riley,  1861 108 

The  Antietam  Monument 153 

Village  of  Sharpsburg,  Md.,  1902 156 

James  N    Greene,  and  Jesse  R.  Fort,  of  Committee 157 

Group  of  Comrades  and  Their  Families  at  the  Dedication 160 

Ladies  and  Comrades  at  the  Dedication 166 

Another  Group  at  the  Dedication 170 

Bronze  Tablets  on  the  Monument 174 

Entrance  to  the  National  Cemetery,  Antietam 176 

"The  Bivouac  of  the  Dead,"  Where  Our  Dead  Sleep,  in  Unknown  Graves, 

at    Antietam    .                           188 


HISTORY  OF  THE   REGIMENT 


CHAPTER    I 

A  STORY  OF  BEGINNINGS 

PRESIDENT  LINCOLN'S  proclamation,  calling  for  75,000  vol 
unteers,  to  serve  for  a  period  of  two  years,  issued  April  15,  1861, 
was  followed  by  rapid  recruiting  in  all  parts  of  the  state.    This 
was  stimulated  by  sermons  bristling  with 
a  fiery  and  bayonet  patriotism,  from  nearly 
all  northern  pulpits ;  by  rousing  mass  meet 
ings,  at  which  there  was  a  great  output  of 
Patrick  Henry  oratory;   and  by  the  voice 
of  the  public  press,  which  was  most  hearty 
in  support  of  a  vigorous  war  policy.     Sel 
dom  was  there  heard  even  a  feeble  protest. 
The  voice  of  the  country  was  for  war,  and 
that  of  the  most  ruddy  variety.     The  crisis 
was  a  great  opportunity  for  able  and  am 
bitious  young  men;  and  many  were  quick 
to  take  advantage  of  it,  by  opening  offices 
for    securing    enlistments.      A    man    who 
could  raise  a  whole  company,  immediately 
became   its  captain.     Another,   who   could 
only  raise  part  of  a  company,  would  com 
bine  with  some  other  man,  similarly  fixed, 
and    so    on.     In    Little    Falls,    Herkimer 
County,   where  the   author   resided,   Wells 
Sponable,   a  capable  and  ambitious  young 
man  of  the  town,  and  whom  everybody  in 
stinctively   recognized    as   a   suitable    spirit 
for  such  an  enterprise,  immediately  headed 
a   roll,   and  soon   had  a  good   number   of 
names  beneath   his   own.      Nathan   Easter- 
brook,  Jr.,  another  young  man  of  the  town, 
then   connected    with    the    freight    depart 
ment  of  the  New  York  Central  Railroad, 
in  a  most  important  capacity,  also  saw  his 
opportunity,  headed  a  similar  roll,  and  soon 
had    an    enthusiastic    following.      At    the 
same   time,    as   in    so   many   thousands   of 
similar  cases,  it  was  not  ambition  that  actu 
ated    these   men,    but   patriotism;    and   the 
bona   fide  article.     These   companies   were 
known   in   local    annals   respectively   as   A 
and  B.     The  writer  of  these  lines  "remem-     COL.  WILLIAM  LADEW— 1861 


io  HISTORY   OF   THE   THIRTY-FOURTH    REGIMENT 

bers  those  days  very  well,  and  the  tempest  of  discussion  which  arose 
in  his  own  mind  as  to  what  was  his  particular  duty  in  the  case.  In 
his  extremity  he  took  counsel  of  no  one  but  his  own  mother,  who 
promptly  replied:  "If  our  country  demands  the  service  of  her  sons 
in  this,  her  great  extremity,  I,  for  one,  would  say  go."  Shortly  there 
after  we  find  his  name  enrolled  below  that  of  Captain  Easterbrook. 

The  following  are  the  very  first  organizations  completed  in  these 
Little  Falls  companies : 

COMPANY     A. 

Captain,    Wells    Sponable. 

First  Lieutenant,  John  H.  Fralick. 

Ensign  (Second  Lieutenant),  Irving  D.  Clark. 

First  Sergeant,  Lewis  M.  Clark.  First  Corporal,  Warren  Van  Allen. 

Second  Sergeant,  Orrin  W.  Beach.  Second  Corporal,  A.  A.  Perry. 

Third  Sergeant,  Lawrence  L.  Brown.          Third  Corporal,  Dennis  Canaan. 
Fourth  Sergeant,  Wallace  Zuper.  Fourth  Corporal,  Edwin  Redner. 

And  thirty  privates. 

COMPANY     B. 

Captain,  Nathan  Easterbrook,  Jr. 

First  Lieutenant,  Timothy  O'Brien. 

Ensign,  O.  P.  Barnes. 

First  Sergeant,  William  S.  Walton.  First  Corporal,  William  Burns. 

Second  Sergeant,  James  T.  Hurley.  Second  Corporal,  Henry  Traver. 

Third  Sergeant,  Benjamin  J.  Loucks.         Third  Corporal,  John  Johnson. 
Fourth  Sergeant,  Romeyn  Roof.  Fourth  Corporal,  Charles  Lasure. 

And  thirty-three  privates,  among  whom  were  two  drummers. 

Before  leaving  home,  the  trustees  of  the  village  (now  city),  pre 
sented  each  man  with  a  bounty  of  five  dollars.  This  seemed  an  unheard- 
of  gratuity  at  the  time,  and  came  wholly  unexpected.  But  later  on, 
when  men  received  bounties  as  high  as  fifteen  hundred  dollars  each,  this 
original  five-dollar  bounty  seemed  a  very  reasonable  proposition.  The 
above  lists  are  from  the  Mohawk  Courier  of  Little  Falls,  date  of  April 
30,  1861,  the  day  the  above  two  companies  left  for  Albany. 

At  Herkimer,  in  the  same  county,  the  same  things  were  taking  place. 
Two  companies  were  immediately  started.  At  the  head  of  one  was  the 
name  of  James  A.  Suiter,  a  veteran  of  the  Mexican  war,  and  who  had 
clearly  earned  the  right  to  stay  at  home,  but  had  no  such  disposition ; 
and  at  the  head  of  the  other  the  name  of  Byron  Laflin,  then  engaged 
with  his  brother,  Addison,  in  running  a  large  writing  paper  factory. 

These  companies  were  also  known  at  the  first  as  A  and  B,  and  num 
bered  about  forty  men  each,  in  addition  to  their  first  officers.  At  the 
home  election,  the  commissioned  officers  were  elected  as  follows : 

COMPANY     A. 

Captain,  Byron  Laflin. 

First  Lieutenant,  Charles  Riley. 

Ensign,  S.  Lepper. 

COMPANY    B. 

Captain,  James  A.  Suiter. 

First  Lieutenant,  Warren  Mack,  Jr. 

Ensign,  Michael  SchafFncr. 

This  selection  of  officers,  however,  was  only  tentative,  as,  in  tjie 
organization  of  the  regiment,  at  Albany,  Laflin  became  major  and 


A  STORY  OF  BEGINNINGS  n 

Suiter  lieutenant-colonel.     We  then  find  the  organization  of  Companies 
A  and  B  to  be  as  follows  : 

COMPANY  F  (its  letter  in  the  final  assignment). — 
Captain,  Charles  Riley. 
First  Lieutenant,  Joseph  R.  Shoemaker. 
Ensign,  Wm.  H.  Helmer. 

First  Sergeant,  William  S.  Van  Val-        First  Corporal,  Charles  B.  Taylor, 
kenburgh.  Second  Corporal,  John  T.  Booth. 

Second  Sergeant,  Christian  Wayman.      Third  Corporal,  Thomas  White. 
Third  Sergeant,  James  B.  Crist.  Fourth  Corporal,  Charles  Pierce. 

Fourth  Sergeant, 

COMPANY  G   (the  permanent  letter  of  B). 
Captain,  Charles  L.  Brown. 
First  Lieutenant,  Warren  Mack,  Jr. 
Ensign,  Michael  Schaffner. 

First  Sergeant,  Joy  E.  Johnson.  First  Corporal,  Jeremiah  Ferrill. 

Second  Sergeant,  Albert  Arnold.  Second  Corporal,  A.  S.  Rounds. 

Third  Sergeant,  James  H.  Cory.  Third  Corporal,  William  Manning. 

Fourth  Sergeant,  Richard  D.  Masher.      Fourth  Corporal,  John  B.  Raynor. 

Dr.  Daniel  P.  Van  Court,  who  was  a  Company  G  man,  and  who, 
since  the  war,  has  resided  at  Mohawk,  N.  Y.,  speaks  of  his  own  com 
pany  with  commendable  pride.  He  says  that  it  was  composed,  almost 
exclusively  of  country  boys,  with  good  records,  and  nearly  all  of  whom 
were  "  dead  shots."  This  last  clause  would  seem  to  justify  Quarter 
master  Easterbrook  in  some  of  the  grief  he  says  he  has  always  felt  that 
the  regiment,  at  the  outset,  was  not  called  "the  Adirondack  Regiment." 
He  says :  "  Seven  of  our  companies,  without  stretch  of  the  imagination, 
were  from  the  Adirondack  region,  viz. :  B,  C,  D,  F,  G,  H  and  K ;  and  it 
has  been  my  boast  for  years  that  we  had  one  hundred  men,  more  or  less, 
that  could,  at  a  hundred  yards,  knock  an  apple  off  a  man's  head,  without 
hurting  a  hair."  And  he  adds  that  "  this  was  the  argument  that,  later, 
at  Washington,  brought  about  the  change  of  arms  from  the  old  Spring 
field  muskets  to  the  modern  Enfield  rifles."  Quartermaster  Easter- 
brook  is  a  man  of  most  unimpeachable  veracity,  of  the  soundest  judg 
ment,  and  great  precision  of  statement ;  but  our  impression  is  that  he 
never  lined  up  behind  the  regiment,  when  it  was  doing  some  of  its  first 
rifle  practice,  down  at  Camp  Jackson,  and  beheld  the  target,  standing 
solitary  and  immune,  in  the  only  absolutely  safe  place  in  western  Mary 
land.  But  to  resume. 

At  Gray,  in  the  northern  part  of  the  county,  under  the  inspiration  of 
such  men  as  William  Ladew,  a  prosperous  tanner  of  the  place,  and 
colonel  of  the  Thirty-eighth  Militia,  we  find  another  company  under 
way,  with  Thomas  Corcoran  as  its  destined  captain.  This  company 
also  contained  between  forty  and  fifty  men,  at  its  first  organization, 
which  was  as  follows: 

COMPANY    C. 

Captain,  Thomas  Corcoran. 

First  Lieutenant,  Samuel  P.  Butler. 

Ensign,  William  S.  Burt. 

First  Sergeant,  William  R.  Wallace.         First  Corporal,  Simon  Loyd. 
Second  Sergeant,  Jacob  Ashley.  Second  Corporal,  Richard  Manning. 

Third  Sergeant,  S.  S.  Walter.  *  Third  Corporal,  Harrison  L.  Banks. 

Fourth  Sergeant,  Charles  B.  Barton.        Fourth  Corporal,  Joshua  Sherwood. 


12  HISTORY   OF   THE   THIRTY-FOURTH   REGIMENT 

At  Brockett's  Bridge,  now  Dolgeville,  in  the  northeastern  part  of 
the  county,  John  Beverly,  a  rising  young  man  of  the  place,  soon  had  a 
company  organized,  which  is  mentioned  in  the  papers  of  the  county  as 
"  Captain  Beverly's  Mountain  Rangers/'  It  will  thus  be  seen  that  all 
parts  of  Herkimer  County  were  simultaneously  making  contributions  to 
the  war.  This  company,  at  its  organization,  numbered  forty-five  men, 
and,  before  leaving  home,  had  its  election  of  officers,  as  follows : 

COMPANY    K. 

Captain,  John  Beverly. 

First  Lieutenant,  Henry  B.  Chamberlain. 

Ensign,  Emerson  S.  Northup. 

First  Sergeant,  Mark  Dye.  First  Corporal,  Alonzo  K.  Hayes. 

Second  Sergeant,  William  De  Forest.       Second  Corporal,  H.  B.  Greenly. 
Third  Sergeant,  James  N.  Greene.  Third  Corporal,  B.  F.  Lewis. 

Fourth  Sergeant,  James  M.  Talcott.         Fourth  Corporal,  Egbert  H.  Caswell. 

This  company  was  made  up  from  the  towns  of  Fairfield  and  Salis 
bury.  Quite  a  number  of  the  men  were  students,  at  the  time  of  their 
enlistment,  at  Fairfield  Seminary,  an  institution  which,  throughout  the 
whole  period  of  the  Civil  War,  made  steady  contributions  to  the  Union 
armies  of  its  best  and  brightest  young  men.  Below  is  told  the  story  of 
how  this  company  and  that  of  Captain  Easterbrook,  were  eventually 
combined,  at  Albany.  In  the  merger  which  took  place,  Captain  Easter- 
brook's  company  lost  its  commissioned  officers,  and  Captain  Beverly's 
company  lost  its  non-commissioned  officers.  First  Lieutenant  Timothy 
O'Brien,  of  Easterbrook's  company,  not  being  in  the  best  of  health, 
returned  home ;  while  Ensign  O.  P.  Barnes  seems  to  have  done  the 
same,  since  we  find  no  further  trace  of  him.  Among  the  non-commis 
sioned  officers  in  Captain  Beverly's  company,  Second  Sergeant,  James 
T.  Hurley,  dropped  out,  and  Fourth  Corporal,  Charles  Lasure,  took 
his  place ;  while  John  Williams  took  the  place  of  Fourth  Corporal.  The 
merger  certainly  worked  to  the  disadvantage  of  the  non-commissioned 
staff  in  Captain  Beverly's  company,  many  of  whom  were  splendid 
men,  and  every  way  worthy  of  the  rank  of  commissioned  officers. 

As  early  as  the  first  week  in  May  these  Little  Falls  companies 
started  for  Albany,  the  state's  eastern  rendezvous ;  having  had  their 
medical  examinations,  their  elections  of  officers, and  their  muster  into  the 
state  service.  And  during  the  first  days  of  May  all  the  Herkimer  County 
companies  arrived  at  the  same  destination.  The  scenes  which  attended 
their  departure  from  home  were  touching  in  the  extreme.  Parents 
parted  from  their  children,  and  young  wives  from  their  husbands,  and 
sweethearts  from  their  lovers,  fully  realizing  that  they  might  never  look 
into  their  faces  again.  A  Little  Falls  paper,  under  such  brave  headlines 
as  "  All  Hail  to  the  Volunteers,"  etc.,  had  this  to  say : 

"Should  any  of  them  fall  in  battle,  let  the  memory  of  their  brave  patriot 
ism  abide  forever  in  the  hearts  of  their  townsmen.  Should  they  return,  let  it 
be  the  return  of  victors — of  conquerors — to  whose  pride  it  may  be  said  they 
never  turned  their  backs  upon  the  flag  of  their  country.  May  the  God  of 
battle?  ever  attend  them." 

The  crowd  at  the  depot  was  very  great.  They  who  had  to  stay  at 
home  hung  on  to  their  boys  till  the  last,  and  every  man  wanted  to  shake 


A  STORY  OF  BEGINNINGS 

the  hand  of  his  friend, 
and  give  him  some  part- 
ing  injunction.  The 
events  of  the  years  that 
followed  showed  that 
the  gravity  of  this  part 
ing  was  more  than  justi 
fied. 

At  Albany  the  men 
were  first  quartered  in 
the  old  Adams  House,  in 
the  heart  of  the  city.  Not 
many  decent  things  can 
justly  be  said  of  this 
old  rat  hole,  of  the  utter 
disregard  of  sanitary 
laws  that  prevailed,  of 
the  food  which  was 
served  out  to  the  men, 
nor  of  the  manner  in 
which  it  was  served. 
Even  when  the  com 
panies  were  shifted  to 
vacant  lofts  about  the 
city,  they  were  still  fed 
at  the  same  trough,  and 
on  the  same  swill.  Our 
great  war  governor,  Ed 
win  D.  Morgan,  had  not 
yet  got  on  his  war  togs;  CAPTAIN  HENRY  BALDWIN.  LATE  IN  LIFE 

but  he  did  later,  and  then 

there  was  less  cause  for  complaint.  For  we  were  then  moved  to  the 
large  Industrial  School  Barracks,  in  the  suburbs  of  the  city,  where 
there  was  plenty  of  air  and  room,  inside  and  out.  And  here  the 
cooked  rations  were  quite  as  good  as  any  soldier  had  a  right  to  expect. 

It  had  been  the  expectation  of  these  six  Herkimer  County  companies 
that  they  would  be  incorporated  with  other  companies,  from  the  same 
county,  in  the  formation  of  a  distinctively  Herkimer  County  regiment. 
This  was  but  natural ;  but  it  soon  became  evident  that  such  an  arrange 
ment  was  impossible.  Though  recruits  were  coming  in  almost  daily 
from  the  home  field,  no  new  companies  were  being  formed  at  home. 
New  York  State's  quota,  under  the  call,  being  now  nearly  filled.  And 
besides,  not  one  of  the  six  companies  was  anywhere  near  full.  Captain 
Sponable's  company  left  Little  Falls  with  41  officers  and  men ;  Captain 
Easterbrook's  with  44;  and  Captain  Beverly's  left  Brockett's  Bridge 
with  45  officers  and  men.  The  other  three  companies  were  of  about  the 
same  strength.  The  law  required  that  each  company  should  have  77 
officers  and  men.  However,  there  was  equally  good  material  accumu 
lating  in  other  parts  of  the  state. 


14  HISTORY   or   THE   THIRTY-FOURTH   REGIMENT 

Simultaneously  with  the  formation  of  these  six  companies  in  Herki- 
mer  County  a  company  was  being  recruited  by  Leland  L.  Doolittle,  at 
Crown  Point,  Essex  County.  The  organization  was  completed  on  the 
first  day  of  May,  and  consisted  of  77  officers  and  men.  The  company, 
as  our  informant  has  it,  was  composed  of  ''the  heartiest  young  men  in 
town."  So  much  local  pride  did  the  citizens  of  the  place  take  in  this 
organization,  that  they  uniformed  it  throughout,  and  sent  it  off  with 
the  greatest  demonstrations  of  interest.  Afterward  they  gave  the  com 
pany  a  beautiful  silk  banner,  which  Chester  S.  Rhodes,  of  the  company, 
was  commissioned  to  bear.  How  bravely,  and  nobly  he  fulfilled  his 
commission,  even  to  his  death,  was  told  at  the  dedication  of  the 
monument. 

The  following  was  the  first  organization  of  this  company  : 

COMPANY    H. 

Captain,  Leland  L.  Doolittle. 

First  Lieutenant,  Hiram  Buck,  (never  mustered) . 

Ensign,  John  B.  Wright. 

First  Sergeant,  Darwin  E.  King.  First  Corporal,  Selden  D.  Orcutt. 

Second  Sergeant,  Oscar  H.  Nichols.  Second  Corporal,  James  McCormick. 

Third  Sergeant,  Charles  Haile.  Third  Corporal,  Wm.  H.  Barnett. 

Fourth  Sergeant,  Henry  H.  Hurd.  Fourth  Corporal,  Simeon  P.  Mclntyre. 

Just  as  early  and  promptly  a  company  was  being  organized  at  Ham- 
mondsport,  in  Steuben  County.  The  first  enlistments  were  about  April 
20,  the  name  of  William  H.  King  being  first  on  the  roll.  As  usual  in 
all  such  cases,  he  was  the  man  to  be  the  first  captain.  Immediately 
after,  came  the  name  of  Monroe  Brundage,  destined  to  be  the  company's 
second  captain,  though  now  but  second  lieutenant.  On  the  25th  was 
entered  the  name  of  Azariah  C.  Brundage,  destined  in  later  years  to  be 
the  Adjutant  of  the  Soldier's  Home,  at  Bath,  in  the  same  county,  where 
so  many  of  the  young  men,  then  hale  and  strong,  and  hurrying  to  the 
defence  of  their  country,  but  later  worn  with  the  long  march,  and  the 
hard  battle,  should  find  a  refuge.  After  enlistments  were  well  started, 
Alfred  T.  Atwood,  with  about  twenty  men,  from  the  town  of  Pnlteney, 
joined  their  ranks.  Atwood  was  made  First  Lieutenant,  and  another 
of  his  men,  H.  C.  Lyon,  was  made  Orderly  Sergeant,  and  still  another, 
John  Finnegan,  Second  Sergeant.  The  organization  of  the  company 
was  completed  May  15.  On  May  22  the  company  was  mustered  into 
the  State  service,  and  very  soon  left  Hammondsport  for  Albany,  where 
it  arrived  the  following  day,  and  where  it  was  "consigned''  to  quarters 
in  the  Adams  House.  Here,  however,  as  Mr.  A.  C.  Brundage  informs 
us,  it  remained  only  for  a  few  days,  when  it  was  transferred  to  the  In 
dustrial  School  Barracks,  where  it  joined  the  other  companies. 


A  STORY  OF  BEGINNINGS  15 

The  following  is  the  result  of  the  first  election  held  in  this  company  : 

COMPANY    I. 

Captain,  William  H.  King. 

First  Lieutenant,  Alfred  T.  At  wood. 

Ensign,  Monroe  B run d age. 

First  Sergeant,  Henry  C.  Lyon.  First  Corporal,  Jas.  C.  Harrington. 

Second  Sergeant,  John  Finnegan.  Second  Corporal,  Lewellyn  McCabe. 

Third  Sergeant,  Lemuel  C  .  Benham.         Third  Corporal,  A.  C.  Brundage. 
Fourth  Sergeant,  Orran  Emmett.  Fourth  Corporal,  J.  W.  Williams. 

Fifth  Sergeant,  Eugene  B.  Larrowc. 

At  Addison,  in  this  same  Steuben  County,  on  April  17,  the  name 
of  Henry  Baldwin  was  enrolled.  He  is  to  become  the  captain  of  the 
other  Steuben  County  company.  This  company,  as  Captain  San  ford 
writes,  "was  composed  of  the  best  and  most  prominent  young  men,  of 
the  towns  of  Addison,  Woodhull,  Tuscarora,  Jasper,  Rathbone,  and 
Troupsbttrg."  And  "the  officers  of  the  company  were  divided  among 
the  several  representatives  of  the  towns  that  had  assisted  in  the  form 
ation  of  the  company."  Thus,  Captain  Baldwin  was  from  Addison ; 
First  Lieutenant,  James  R.  Carr,  from  Tuscarora ;  Second  Lieutenant, 
Edwin  F.  Smith,  from  Woodhull ;  and  the  same  with  the  non-commis 
sioned  officers.  The  company  was  mustered  into  the  state  service 
May  1 8,  and  left  for  Albany  May  27. 

Of  this  company,  the  following  statement  and  roll  of  officers, 
elected  after  its  first  inspection,  is  taken  from  the  Addison  Advertiser,  of 
May  22,  1861,  now,  and  for  over  forty  years,  in  the  possession  of 
Horace  D.  Baldwin,  a  Company  E  man : 

COMPANY     E. 

Captain,  Henry  Baldwin. 

First  Lieutenant,  James  R.  Carr. 

Ensign,  Edwin  F.  Smith. 

First  Sergeant,  Edwin  M.  Le  Munyan.     First  Corporal,  Horace  D.  Baldwin. 
Second  Sergeant,  George  W.  Wildrick.    Second  Corporal,  Charles  Kester. 
Third  Sergeant,  Henry  W.  Sanford.          Third  Corporal,  Oscar  D.  Blanchard. 
Fourth  Sergeant,  William  Durand.  Fourth  Corporal,  Benj.  F.  Burt. 

At  Champlain,  in  Clinton  County,  at  this  time,  what  was  destined 
to  be  Company  D,  of  the  Thirty-fourth,  was  taking  form  and  order. 
Although  a  certain  memorial  of  the  company,  such  as  we  were  all 
familiar  with  during  the  service,  issued  in  gilded  form,  and  designed  to 
be  framed  and  hung  among  the  archives  at  home,  states  the  company 
was  mustered  into  the  state  service  May  i,  we  find  that  May  22  was 
the  true  date.  This  was  a  splendid  company,  and  Captain  John  O. 
Scott,  who  early  came  to  the  front  as  its  leader,  was  a  most  devoted 
officer.  The  same  scenes,  with  which  we  are  now  so  familiar,  attended 
the  departure  of  this  company  from  home. 

COMPANY     D. 

Captain,  Davis  Jefferson  Rich. 

First  Lieutenant,  John  O.  Scott. 

Ensign,  Brinkerhoff  N.  Miner. 

First  Sergeant,  Albert  W.  Ransom.  First  Corporal,  Christian  Zaugg. 

Second  Sergeant,  Lemuel  C.  Matthews.  Second  Corporal,  Cyrus  H.  Kellogg 
Third  Sergeant,  Henry  J.  Cooper.  Third  Corporal,  Eli  T-  Deschamps. 

Fourth  Sergeant,  William  L.  Hill.  Fourth  Corporal,  Albert  H.  Cook. 


1 6  HISTORY   OF  THE   THIRTY-FOURTH    REGIMENT 

At  West  Troy,  during  the  dates  with  which  we  are  now  dealing, 
May  18-30,  William  L.  Oswald  was  busy  recruiting  the  company  that, 
in  the  lettering,  should  be  known  as  Company  A,  and  as  stated  below, 
was  to  have  the  right  of  the  line. 

Mr.  Oswald  was  president  of  the  village  of  West  Troy  at  the  time, 
and  for  the  furtherance  of  the  project  of  raising  a  company  a  meeting 
was  held  April  25,  at  Union  Place  Hall,  in  the  village.  At  this  meeting 
a  number  of  recruits  were  obtained.  The  Hall  became  the  rallying  cen 
ter  for  the  movement.  As  Lieutenant  Oathout  writes  us,  Captain  Os 
wald,  (as  he  was  afterward  elected  to  be),  Luther  A.  Hill,  and  him 
self,  gave  almost  their  entire  time  recruiting  the  company.  They  were 
entirely  successful,  and  on  May  17  had  their  first  inspection  at  the  Hall ; 
and,  as  our  Roster  shows,  on  the  following  day,  May  18,  were  mus 
tered  into  the  state  service.  After  inspection  on  the  I7th,  the  company 
.elected  its  commissioned  officers  as  follows : 

Captain,  William  L.  Oswald. 

First  Lieutenant,   Elijah  R.   Brown. 

Ensign,  Benjamin  H.   Warford. 

On  the  first  of  June  the  company  came  down  to  Albany,  and  were 
quartered  at  the  Industrial  School  Barracks,  along  with  the  other  com 
panies,  with  whom  their  fortunes  were  destined  to  be  cast  for  the  com 
ing  two  years.  On  June  15,  as  we  shall  see,  came  the  muster  of  the 
regiment  into  the  United  States  service,  and  on  the  I7th,  following,  this 
company,  to  be  known  henceforth  as  Company  A,  elected  its  non-com 
missioned  officers  as  follows : 

First  Sergeant,  Luther  A.  Hill.  First  Corporal,  Abram  E.  Lansing. 

Second  Sergeant,  Geo.  H.  Swartwout.  Second  Corporal,  Joseph  Andrews. 

Third  Sergeant,  John  Oathout.  Third  Corporal,  John  Mclntyre. 

Fourth  Sergeant,  Martin  Gorman.  Fourth  Corporal,  Edward  Hoffman. 

On  July  i,  the  company  visited  West  Troy,  prior  to  the  departure 
of  the  regiment  for  the  south,  and  an  enthusiastic  reception  was  tend 
ered  by  the  citizens.  On  this  occasion  a  flag  was  presented  to  the  com- 
panv,  also  articles  for  camp  and  hospital  use,  and  a  Bible  to  each  man. 
Speeches  were  made  by  resident  clergy,  and  prominent  citizens.  Most 
of  the  above  facts  we  glean  from  the  WTest  Troy  Advocate,  the  village 
newspaper  at  the  time.  At  the  time  of  holding  its  first  election  of  non 
commissioned  officers,  in  June,  it  numbered  seventy-five  privates. 

Now  all  these  additional  companies  had  early  or  late,  arrived  in 
Albany ;  and  the  following  statement,  by  an  officer,  who  was  on  the 
inside  at  the  time,  will  explain  how  the  organization  of  the  regiment  was 
finally  accomplished.  The  officer  referred  to  is  Captain  Nathan  Easter- 
brook  Jr. : 

"Early  in  May,  the  six 'skeleton'  companies  from  Herkimer  County,  pro 
ceeded  to  Albany,  to  recruit  and  drill.  The  companies  were  commanded  by 
William  Ladew,  James  A.  Suiter,  Bvron  Laflin,  Wells  Sponable,  Nathan 
Easterbrook,  Jr.,  and  John  Beverly.  For  a  month  or  more  the  cherished  de 
sire  of  the  six  companies  to  form  a  'Herkimer  County  Regiment,'  with 
field  and  staff  officers  to  be  selected  from  among  their  numbers,  came  danger- 


A  STORY  OF  BEGINNINGS 


ously  near  failure,  by  reason  of  assign 
ment  of  one  or  more  of  the  faithful  six 
to  some  other  regiment  then  in  course 
of  formation.  The  aid  of  influential 
friends  at  Little  Falls  and  Herkimer  was 
frequently  invoked,  and  freely  given,  and 
with  the  courage  and  pluck  of  the  faith 
ful,  against  whom  the  direst  results  of 
disobedience  of  orders  were  intimated,  our 
column  remained  unbroken,  notwithstand 
ing  the  fact  that  recruiting  was  not  pro 
gressing  as  rapidly  as  it  should  have  to 
insure  the  desired  full  com 
panies.  To  facilitate  the  com 
pletion  of  the  companies  so  far 
as  possible,  Captain  Easterbrook 
was  urgently  advised  by  Messrs. 
George  A.  Hardin, Oliver  Ladue, 
Horace  M.  Burch,  Acors  Rath- 
bun,  and  others,  to  merge  his 
company  into  the  other  five 
companies,  which  he  did;  and 
then  he  recruited  a  full  com 
pany  of  men  from  Crown  Point 
(Company  H),  which  had 
reached  Albany  too  late  to  be 
accepted  under  the  'Call,'  with 
the  understanding  that  imme 
diately  on  acceptance  by  the 
State,  under  Captain  Easter- 
brook,  who  was  duly  authorized 
as  a  recruiting  officer  to  com 
plete  his  company,  they  were 
to  hold  an  election  for  company  officers  of  their  own  members,  and  to  vote 
the 'straight' Herkimer  County  ticket  for  regimental  field  officers,  which  they 
did.  This  piece  of  strategy  put  the  'six'  on  solid  ground  after  many  tribulations. 
The  battles  were  bloodless,  but  the  outcome  was  of  vital  importance  to  the 
'Herkimer  County  Regiment.'  Companies  A,  D,  E,  and  I  came  to  us  without 

Oswald,    Company  A,  was    promised   the 


CAPTAIN    MONROE    BRUNDAGE 1875 


stipulation,    except    that    Captain 
'Right  of  the  Line,'  which  he  got. 


"The  bona  fide  membership  of  the  regiment,  on  the  i5th  of  June,  1861, 
might  have  been  7 7 5,  officers  and  men;  but  it  was  more  likely  less  than  775. 
We  may  have  had  125  recruits  during  our  tour  of  two  years,  though  I  do  not 
believe  we  had.  If  we  had  775  bona  fide  members  at  'muster  in,'  and  received 
125  recruits,  we  had  900,  officers  and  men,  during  our  two  years'  service.  We 
lost  03,  officers  and  men,  killed  and  mortally  wounded,  or  more  than  ten  per 
cent,  of  our  enrollment.  Nearly  one-third  of  Colonel  Wm.  F.  Fox's  'Three 
Hundred  Fighting  Regiments'  met  with  a  smaller  loss." 

The  following  is  the  first  regimental  organization  completed  at 
Albany : 

Colonel — William  Ladew, 

Lieut.   Col. — James  A.  Suiter, 

Major — Byron  Laflin, 

Adjutant — George  W.  Thompson, 

Quartermaster — Nathan  Easterbrook,  Jr., 

Surgeon — Socrates  N.   Sherman, 

Asst.   Surgeon — Edward  S.   Walker, 

Chaplain — J.   B.  Van  Petten, 

Drum  Major — David  M.   Heath. 


1 8  HISTORY   OF   THE   THIRTY-FOURTH    REGIMENT 

When  mustered  into  the  federal  service,  the  regiment,  according 
to  Colonel  Suiter,  numbered  786  officers  and  men.  Adjutant-General 
Sprague,  in  his  early  reports  of  1864,  gives  the  number  as  809.  At 
the  muster  in,  June  15,  an  opportunity  was  given  to  any,  who  didn't  like 
the  prospect  ahead,  to  back  out ;  and  there  were  some  faint  hearts,  who 
availed  themselves  of  the  chance  ;  but  generally  speaking  there  was  little 
disposition  to  do  this.  The  regiment  was  drawn  up,  and  a  company  at 
a  time  held  up  the  right  hands  and  swore  to  support  and  defend 'the 
country.  When  any  men  in  a  company  backed  out,  there  was  a  uni 
versal  howl  from  all  the  others  in  the  regiment.  And  when  any  com 
pany  stood  solidly  up,  and  took  the  oath  to  a  man,  there  was  a  universal 
cheer.  Most  of  the  cases  of  backing  out  were  due  to  misgivings  which 
the  men  began  to  have  about  their  pay ;  for  some,  we  must  remember, 
had  already  been  in  the  service  nearly  two  months,  and  as  yet  no  pay 
had  materialized.  But  usually,  when  reassured  on  this  point,  thev 
stepped  back  into  the  ranks. 

In  the  General  Roster,  which  is  given  farther  on,  will  be  found  the 
names  of  all  the  officers,  elected  at  the  organization,  with  the  order 
of  their  subsequent  succession.  On  the  afternoon  of  June  26  a  stand 
of  colors*  was  presented  to  the  regiment  by  Horace  Burch,  of  Little 
Falls,  representing  the  ladies  of  that  place.  The  banner  was  of  silk, 
and  was  a  beautiful  emblem.  Here  at  the  barracks,  also,  the  men 
received  their  arms,  their  uniforms,  their  blankets,  and,  in  fact,  their 
whole  first  outfits.  The  guns  were  the  old  smooth-bore,  Springfield 
muskets,  which  even  then  were  properly  regarded  as  antique  weapons. 
The  uniforms  were  good,  but  the  blankets  were  small  and  shoddy. 
They  were  the  best,  however,  that  the  state  could  do  on  such  short 
notice,  and  very  soon  after  reaching  the  field  they  were  replaced  by 
blankets  good  enough  for  anybody.  All  this  time  there  was  hard  drill 
going  on  every  day;  and  the  citizens  of  yesterday,  the  clerks,  and  the 
farmer  boys  were  rapidly  being  transformed  into  well-seasoned  soldiers. 
At  Tweddle  Hall,  in  the  city,  every  Sunday,  the  men  attended  divine 
service,  and  the  great  hall  echoed  to  many  a  rousing  sermon,  preached 
by  the  ablest  ministers  in  the  city ;  among  whom  was  Rev.  R.  B.  Strat- 
ton,  who  took  a  deep  interest  in  the  Thirty-fourth  ;  for  he  had  been  a 
Little  Falls  citizen  himself  but  recently,  and  personally  knew  many  of 
the  members. 


*A  WORD  CONCERNING  THE  PICTURES. 

Very  many  of  the  illustrations  in  this  volume  are  from  photographs  more  than  forty  years  old  . 
They  were  faded  and  yellow,  and  deeply  gnawed  by  the  tooth  of  time;  but  I  think  the  comrades 
will  agree  with  me  that  the  photo-engravers  have  succeeded  remarkably  well  in  restoring  them. 
Many  of  the  recent  views  were  taken  by  myself.  The  views  of  the  monument  and  group  were 
taken  by  Photographer  W.  B.  King,  of  Hagerstown,  Md.,  from  whom  comrades  can  obtain  copies. 
We  are  all  deeply  indebted  to  the  comrades  who  have  been  willing  to  loan  their  old  photographs, 
now  held  as  priceless  treasures,  for  the  purposes  of  this  history.  Whenever  possible  it  has  been  my 
plan  to  give  two  pictures  of  each  officer,  showing  how  he  looked  in  the  war,  and  how  he  looks  now. 
or  did  in  later  life,  for  many  have  passed  away.  In  most  cases  Time  has  left  few  of  the  lineament", 
with  which  we  were  familiar.  The  flag  referred  to  is  now  preserved,  along  with  many  others,  in 
the  State  Capitol,  at  Albany. 


CHAPTER  II 

OFF  TO  THE  FRONT.     CAMP  KALORAMA.     CAMP  JACKSON. 

ON  the  morning  of  July  3,  a  person  standing  at  the  foot  of  State 
Street,  in  Albany,  and  gazing  up  toward  the  Capitol,  would 
have  seen  a  column  of  soldiers  marching  down.  It  was  a 
sight  with  which  the  citizens  of  the  city  had  grown  quite  familiar,  but 
which  still  remained  an  inspiring  spectacle.  There  was  the  rhythmic 
wave  of  motion  which,  starting  at  the  head  of  the  column,  nearest  the 
band,  rolled  up  the  great  hill  till  it  reached  the  rear  of  the  column, 
and  every  moment  repeated  itself  as  the  men  swung  from  right  to 
left,  and 'left  to  right.  The  guns,  at  a  right  shoulder  shift,  flashed 
in  the  bright  morning  sun,  every  one  held  at  exactly  the  same  angle. 
Who  are  these  men,  who  thus  bear  themselves  so  nobly,  and  step 
so  firm  and  true  ?  Surely  they  are  no  raw  recruits ;  they  are  more 
like  Uncle  Sam's  regulars ;  they  march  as  if  a  military  step  wert, 
their  natural  habit,  and  military  service  their  accustomed  vocation. 
But  no;  these  are  the  men  who,  but  yesterday,  were  in  the  back 
woods  of  northern  Herkimer  County;  scattered  upon  the  farms  of 
old  Steuben;  along  the  shores  of  Lake  Champlain;  and  through  the 
towns  and  cities  of  the  state.  Each  man  has  heard  a  warning  cry 
that  "freedom  stood  in  peril  of  a  foe,"  and  here  he  is,  ready  for  her 
defense.  Never  men  stepped  truer  to  the  drum-beat  than  these  men 
of  the  Thirty-fourth,  who  are  now  on  their  way  to  the  front;  and  we 
may  be  sure  we  shall  hear  a  good  report  of  them,  when  the  time  comes 
for  action. 

It  is  July  3,  and  the  regiment  has  embarked,  and  is  on  its  way  down 
the  river.  The  morning  of  our  national  holiday  finds  the  Western 
World  at  wharf,  in  the  lower  part  of  New  York  city,  where  it  remains 
until  the  morning  of  the  5th,  when  it  steams  across  the  bay,  and  the 
regiment  takes  train  for  Washington.  The  Washington  Intelligencer, 
of  Saturday,  July  6,  contained  this  among  its  other  local  news  items : 

"The  Thirty-fourth  Regiment,  New  York  State  Volunteers,  arrived  here  at 
nine  o'clock  last  evening.  It  is  a  fine  body  of  men,  who  are  mostly  from 
Herkimer  County.  The  regiment  numbers  a  thousand  men." 

Here  Colonel  Ladew  reports  to  General  Mansfield,  and  on  the  fol 
lowing  day,  Sunday,  the  regiment  pitches  its  first  camp,  which  is  on 
Kalorama  Heights, "a  commanding  and  healthy  site,  with  sloping  side, 
and  a  bountiful  stream  of  water  close  at  hand.  Here,  during  our  second 
week,  occurred  the  first  real  casualty  in  the  regiment.  George  J.  Water- 
house,  of  Company  K,  going  to  the  brook  in  the  morning,  to  fill  his 
canteen,  leaned  over,  his  revolver  slipped  from  his  side  coat  pocket,  the 
hammer  struck  on  a  stone,  the  pistol  was  discharged,  and  the  ball  passed 
directly  through  his  heart.  Waterhouse  was  a  printer,  employed  in  the 
office  of  the  Little  Falls  Journal,  at  the  time  of  his  enlistment,  as  was 
also  the  writer  of  this  history.  His  tragic  death  produced  a  profound 
impression. 


2O  HISTORY   OF   THE   THIRTY-FOURTH    REGIMENT 

Quartermaster  Easterbrook  sends  us  the  following  statement  in 
regard  to  the  exchange  of  our  old  Springfield  muskets  for  a  better  arm, 
which  occurred  at  this  time  : 

"I  suppose  you  have  heard  Colonel  Suiter  relate  the  story  of  the  very  dis 
couraging  outlook  for  an  efficient  arming  of  the  regiment  when  it  reached 
Washington  ;  and  how,  by  a  lucky  providence,  in  the  personal  visit  of  Governor 
Morgan  to  the  city,  and  through  the  innuen  je  or  aid  of  General  Mansfield  and 
General  Francis  E.  Spinner,  end  perhaps  others,  the  regiment  was  finally, 
though  reluctantly,  on  the  part  of  Governor  Morgan,  armed  with  the  Enfield 
rifle.  It  is  an  interesting  incident  of  the  service  of  the  regiment,  and  is  worthy 
of  preservation." 

Colonel  Suiter's  account  of  this  incident  is  briefly  stated  as 
follows : 

"The  arms  which  we  had,  being  worthless,  we  made  application  to  Govern 
or  Morgan,  then  in  Washington,  for  more  efficient  arms.  We  received,  on  the 
morning  of  July  21,  Enfield  rifles,  of  58  and  60  caliber,  and  sent  them  to  the 
men." 

The  battle  of  Bull  Run  was  fought  on  Sunday,  July  21 ;  and  a  great 
many  good  people  thought  the  north  was  justly  punished  for  being 
willing  to  go  to  war  on  that  holy  day.  But  how  about  the  south  ?  The 
south  might  properly  have  wished  that  all  its  battles  could  be  fought 
on  that  day,  that  it  was  the  best  day  in  the  week  for  them.  We  lay  in 
our  camp  on  Kalorama,  and  heard  the  distant  booming  of  the  heavy 
guns.  The  day  before  an  order  to  be  ready  had  arrived  ;  but  not  yet  had 
we  made  a  move.  It  was  a  Sunday  for  deep  reflection,  and  for  thoughts 
quite  as  serious  as  we  might  have  had  at  home,  listening  to  "sermons  of 
another  kind."  Along  in  the  middle  of  the  afternoon  the  order  came  to 
fall  in,  and  we  thought  we  should  surely  start  for  the  front.  But  we 
didn't.  Monday  morning  all  moving  orders  were  countermanded.  On 
that  morning  Colonel  Ladew  started  for  the  north  on  recruiting  service, 
and  the  command  devolved  on  Lieutenant-Colonel  Suiter. 

July  28,  the  regiment  broke  camp  on  Kalorama,  and  took  its 
uneventful  march  up  the  Potomac,  as  far  as  Great  Falls,  which  is  the 
source  of  water-supply  for  the  city  of  Washington.  Here  three  com 
panies,  B,  G,  and  I,  are  detached,  under  the  command  of  Major  Laflin, 
to  guard  the  river.  The  remaining  seven  companies  proceed  on  to 
Seneca  Mills,  where  they  go  into  camp,  which  is  named  after  General 
Jackson. 

Quartermaster  Easterbrook  gives  us  the  following  account  of  the 
trip  up  to  Seneca  Mills : 

"When  we  left  Washington  for  Seneca  Mills,  Gen.  Mansfie  d  took  lively 
interest  in  our  outfit.  We  had  42  Wagons,  6  Ambulances,  a  Wagonmaster 
and  three  assistants.  We  had  190  head  of  horses  to  do  our  work  These  190 
horses  consumed  about  one  and  a  quarter  tons  of  hay  and  60  bushels  of 
oats  per  day.  General  Mansfield  ordered  the  Asst.  Q.  M.  (Maj.  D.  H. 
Rucker,  father-in-law  of  Gen.  Sheridan,)  to  supply  me  with  $2,000,  to  buy 
forage.  Maj.  Rucker  gave  me  too  twenty  dollar  gold  pieces.  I  had  no  place 
to  put  them,  so  I  put  them  in  the  valise  attached  to  the  saddle,  which  I  had 
bought  in  Albany.  This  valise,  as  I  learned  from  experience,  was  made  of 
stiff  cardboard  paper,  covered  with  cloth.  The  gold  pieces  weighed  five  or 
six  pounds,  and  every  time  my  horse  galloped  the  gold  would  bounce  from  one 
end  to  the  other  of  the  valise,  and  at  last  knocked  out  the  end  of  the  same,  the 


OFF  TO  THE  FRONT  21 

gold  falling  and  scattering  over  the  ground.  There  was  a  lively  scramble  to 
gather  it  in,  which  I  finally  did,  but  the  puzzle,  what  to  do  with  it,  was  yet  unsolved 
I  slept  with  it  under  my  head  for  a  pillow  that  night.  Gen.  Mansfield  had 
SSoo  turned  over  to  Lieut. -Col.  Suiter  at  the  same  time,  to  buy  fresh  meat  for 
the  regt.  I  never  knew  how  the  Colonel  got  along  with  his  responsibility,  but 
mine  made  me  lots  of  trouble." 

While  we  were  at  Camp  Jackson  we  had  a  good  deal  of  trouble 
with  the  matter  of  provisioning-  the  regiment.  There  was  no  regular 
system  of  supplying  the  troops  not  only  of  our  own,  but  of  other  regi 
ments  as  well,  that  were  encamped  along  the  Potomac.  All  provisions 
had  to  be  hauled  in  wagons  from  Washington,  except  produce  for  the 
horses,  which  was  bought  of  the  farmers  in  the  vicinity.  On  one  occa 
sion  Captain  Sponable  was  sent  to  Washington  for  supplies  by  Colonel 
Ladew.  The  roads  were  bad,  the  horses,  four  to  a  wagon,  were  green, 
and  wouldn't  pull,  and  the  Captain  had  a  hard  time  getting  back.  He 
made  up  his  mind  that  if  he  was  ever  sent  out  on  that  duty  again  he 
would  devise  some  other  means  for  hauling  the  stuff  to  camp.  Along 
side  the  river  ran  the  Chesapeake  and  Ohio  Canal ;  which,  at  that  time, 
was  closed  to  navigation,  on  account  of  the  rebs,  who  occupied  the  Vir 
ginia  shore.  The  water  was  in  the  canal,  but  there  was  no  navigation. 
And  sure  enough,  shortly  after  the  Captain's  first  trip,  he  was  ordered 
to  make  another.  He  went  down  to  Washington  on  horseback,  and 
proceeded  to  interview  Captain  D.  H.  Rucker,  who  was  then  Assist 
ant  Quartermaster,  at  Washington  (and  by  the  way,  he  was  after 
ward  father-in-law  to  General  Phil  Sheridan),  and  made  requisition 
on  him  for  a  boat  to  transport  supplies  to  Seneca  Mills.  The  Quarter 
master  looked  at  the  Captain  out  of  the  corner  of  his  eye,  and  finally 
said,  "Captain,  are  you  crazy?  You  never  could  get  a  boat  to  Seneca 
Mills.  The  rebels  would  blow  you  out  of  the  canal."  The  Captain 
insisted,  but  it  was  of  no  use.  Rucker  would  give  no  boat.  The  Cap 
tain  then  left,  and  went  to  General  Francis  E.  Spinner,  then  and  for 
the  whole  period  of  the  war,  United  States  Treasurer.  General  Spin 
ner  was  a  Herkimer  County  man,  whose  home  was  in  Mohawk.  He 
knew  the  Captain  well,  and  knew  also  that  he  was  a  practical  boatman ; 
and  what's  more,  knew  that  he  was  a  man  who,  when  he  set  out  to 
do  a  thing,  generally  did  it.  Well,  to  make  a  long  story  short, 
the  Captain  got  his  boat ;  and  hurried  back  to  Rucker  with  his  written 
order.  Rucker  made  no  more  opposition ;  but  promptly  said  that 
the  stuff  should  be  at  the  wharf  in  Georgetown,  and  loaded,  bv  five 
o'clock.  And  sure  enough  it  was ;  and  the  Captain  started  for  Seneca 
Mills.  That  was  probably  one  of  the  most  remarkable  trips  ever  made 
by  any  man  on  the  Chesapeake  and  Ohio  Canal.  The  Captain  was 
captain,  boat'sun,  crew  and  cook ;  and  what's  more,  had  to  do  all  the 
locking  on  the  way.  The  driver  drove  his  horses,  dodged  the  bul 
lets,  and  the  Captain  did  the  rest.  The  rebels  were  early  in  discover 
ing  this  bold  attempt  to  reopen  navigation,  and  thought  it  a  lit 
tle  premature ;  and  that  it  was  their  duty  to  put  some  obstacles  in 
the  way.  But,  in  spite  of  all  their  opposition,  the  Captain  succeeded, 
brought  his  boat  through  in  handsome  shape,  with  the  cargo  intact, 
and  received  therefor  the  thanks  of  his  commanding  officer. 


22  HISTORY   OF   THE   THIRTY-FOURTH    REGIMENT 

Here,  as  at  all  our  other  first  camps,  we  were  overrun  with  the 
blacks,  for  whom  the  Suwanee  River,  and  all  other  rivers  of  the  south, 
had  no  attractions  at  all  comparable  with  those  of  the  Potomac  River, 
with  Massa  Linkum's  sojers  encamped  on  its  northern  bank.  General 
Butler  had  not  yet  arrived,  to  give  these  refugees  a  name  and  a  status ; 
the  government  did  not  want  to  do  anything  to  give  the  south  reason 
for  believing  that  we  were  fighting  to  wipe  out  slavery ;  and  so  these 
runaways,  who  were  not  yet  contrabands,  were  left  unhoused,  unfed, 
unclothed,  and  almost  unburied.  Later  on  their  condition  was  very 
much  improved,  and  thousands  of  them  were  employed  as  teamsters, 
servants,  etc.  But  all  along,  at  first,  the  whole  situation  was  most  pa 
thetic. 

Quartermaster  Easterbrook  gives  us  a  few  interesting  reminiscen 
ces  on  this  subject: 

"  The  only  points  of  especial  interest  regarding  the  fugitive  slaves  in  our 
camp,  so  far  as  I  had  any  experience,  center  on  Fenton  Harris,  who  faithfully 
served  me,  went  to  Little  Falls  with  me  when  we  were  mustered  out,  came  to 
New  Haven  with  me,  and  died  here  last  October,  (1901,)  and  lies  in  the  Grove 
Street  Cemetery  in  this  city,  in  the  lot,  and  close  by  the  grave  of  Lieut. -Governor, 
Morris  Tyler,  in  whose  family  he  had  been  employed  for  thirty-four  years. 
Fenton  was  much  more  than  a  servant  to  me.  I  have  never  lost  interest  in  him. 
He  was  a  noble  specimen  of  an  escaped  slave.  Col.  Laflin  had  as  a  servant 
'  Dick,"  who  also  was  a  superior  man.  I  would  like  to  tell  you  how  I  tried  to 
get  Dick  out  of  Washington,  in  December,  1861,  with  the  aid  of  Dr.  Sherman, 
to  take  him  home,  (Pittsfield,  Mass.,)  for  the  Colonel,  and  how  he  failed.  A 
black  man  could  not  get  out  of  Washington.  Dr.  Sherman  invoked  the  power 
of  his  position  to  get  him  out,  but  it  wouldn't  work.  Dick  had  to  stay.  Then 
there  was  Addison  Phillips,  and  his  wife,  Nellie,  with  an  infant  of  tender  age, 
(six  weeks,  I  think).  Nellie  established  a  laundry  at  Camp  Jackson,  and  did 
•quite  a  thriving  business.  Addison,  is  living  at  the  Falls,  and  did  own  several 
houses  and  lots  there.  Captain  Riley  also  had  a  valuable  man.  He  was  as 
black  as  a  raven,  and  as  good  as  he  was  black.  He  enlisted  late  in  1863,  or 
early  in  '64,  and  received  a  large  bounty:  $1,500  as  I  remember  it.  Fenton 
Harris  had  been  owned  by  a  man  named  Turley,  whose  home  was  at  Leesburg, 
Va.  There  must  have  been  twenty  or  twenty-five  negroes  in  our  outfit,  most 
of  whom  came  to  us  at  Camp  Jackson.  The  poor  fellows  had  a  hard  time  of  it 
until  the  adoption  of  Butler's  theory.  After  that  they  got  along  all  right." 

Major  Sponable  also  had  a  servant  by  the  name  of  Robert  Scott, 
who  was  like  the  others,  faithful  and  true.  He  was  an  escaped  slave, 
who  joined  us  at  Camp  McClellan.  He  was  brought  home  by  the  Major 
at  the  close  of  our  service.  He  went  to  school  in  Little  Falls  during  the 
summer  of  1863,  and  the  Major  finally  got  him  a  position  as  waiter  in 
a  restaurant,  in  Syracuse. 

Captain  Clark  reports  that  on  one  occasion,  when  he  was  on  picket 
at  Edward's  Ferry,  General  Stone  tried  to  send  back  to  Virginia  two 
boat  loads  of  these  blacks  that  had  "sought  sanctuary"  in  our  camps. 
The  Confederate  picket  refused  to  let  them  land.  Stone  still  ordered 
the  men  to  row  on,  but  the  rebel  picket  threatened  to  shoot,  and  so 
Stone  gave  it  up.  Stone  was  imprisoned  after  Ball's  Bluff,  and  later 
was  released,  and  restored  to  the  confidence  of  the  government.  Still 
later  he  became  a  Pasha  in  Egypt. 


OFF  TO  THE  FRONT  23 

The  regiment  now  has  the  custody  of  about  seventeen  miles  of  river 
front,  parallel  to  which  runs  the  Chesapeake  and  Ohio  Canal.  The 
line  runs  from  a  point  two  miles  east  of  Great  Falls,  to  eight  miles  west 
of  Seneca  Mills.  In  addition  to  this  laborious  picket  duty,  there  was, 
of  course,  the  usual  amount  of  guard  duty  at  the  home  camp,  which  was 
by  no  means  light,  and  the  regular  drills  and  inspections.  During  this 
time,  the  unknown  land,  which  lay  south  of  the  river,  was  a  region  of 
special  interest  and  inquiry  among  both  officers  and  men.  The  fact 
that  it  was  a  forbidden  country,  made  it  all  the  more  interesting.  There 
was  not  much  evidence  of  the  presence  of  soldiers  on  the  other  side,  and 
this  augmented  the  temptation  to  steal  over.  It  was  on  one  of  these 
scouting  expeditions  that  Oliver  P.  Darling,  of  Company  B,  lost  his  life  ; 
Bob  Gracey,  of  Company  H  was  shot  and  captured,  and  Captain  Wells 
Sponable  of  Company  B,  came  near  sharing  the  fate  of  one,  or  the  other, 
or  both.  It  was  a  close  shave  for  the  Captain.  Fortunately  we  have  the 
account  of  this  adventure  in  Captain  Sponable's  own  words : 

"While  encamped  at  Seneca  Mills,  and  being  this  day,  September  16,  on 
duty  as  regimental  officer  of  the  day,  Colonel  Wm.  Ladew  told  me  he  had 
that  day  heard  that  a  rebel  regiment  had  recently  been  stationed  at  Dranesville, 
a  small  place,  from  four  to  six  miles  from  our  camp,  on  the  Virginia  side  of  the 
Potomac.  The  Colonel  relieved  me  from  the  duties  of  officer  of  the  day,  and 
placed  Captain  John  Beverly  on  that  duty.  While  I  was  getting  ready  to 
cross  the  river,  Private  Oliver  P.  Darling,  of  my  company,  and  Bob  Gracey,  of 
Company  H,  obtained  permission  from  the  Colonel  to  accompany  me.  My 
instructions  from  the  Colonel  were  verbal:  to  obtain  all  the  information  pos 
sible,  and  report  as  soon  as  practicable;  at  the  same  time  to  use  my  best  judg 
ment  as  to  my  actions  while  on  said  expedition.  We  crossed  the  river  about 
sundown,  passed  into  a  large  cornfield,  crossed  the  marsh  on  the  logs,  and  pro 
ceeded  on  our  way.  A  short  distance  behind  us  came  eight  or  ten  members 
of  our  regiment,  that  were  stationed  at  Muddy  Branch,  on  picket,  who  were  on 
their  way  to  obtain  some  of  the  rebels'  green  corn  on  the  island.  Directly  after 
crossing'the  marsh,  as  the  evening  was  quite  light,  I  proceeded  along  the  edge 
of  a  woods  on  our  right,  being  temporarily  shielded  on  the  left  by  another 
large  cornfield.  I  took  the  lead,  Darling  in  the  center,  and  Gracey  brought  up 
the  rear.  The  whole  of  the  picket  that  were  following  had  not  crossed  over  the 
logs  when  I  heard  a  slight  noise  in  the  cornfield" on  my  left,  probably  not  over 
three  rods  distant  from  me.  Instantly  thereafter  I  heard  the  command  to  fire 
given,  which  was  followed  by  a  volley  of  rifles;  how  many  there  were  I  cannot 
say.  I  looked  over  my  shoulder  and  saw  both  of  my  companions  fall,  and, 
supposing  them  dead,  as  my  hat  had  been  knocked  off  my  head  by  a  rebel  bullet, 
I  thought  it  time  for  me  to  rejoin  my  regiment,  if  possible  so  to  do.  In  much 
less  time  than  it  now  takes  to  tell  it,  I  turned  to  the  right,  passed  through  the 
woods,  and  came  out  about  half  a  mile  further  up  the  river  than  I  had  crossed 
earlier  in  the  evening.  Upon  arriving  at  the  river,  it  took  me  but  a  moment  to 
decide  what  was  best  to  do:  swim  the  river  at  once,  or  remain  to  be  captured. 
I  plunged  into  the  river,  and  immediately  thereafter  the  rebels  commanded 
me  to  return.  Not  feeling  disposed  to  obey  their  order,  I  swam  as  fast  as 
possible,  they  at  the  same  time  accelerating  my  exertions  by  firing  about 
twenty  shots  at  me,  none  of  which,  however,  hit  me,  though  they  came  in 
rather  close  proximity.  Upon  regaining  the  camp,  I  found  the  regiment 
under  arms,  and  also  learned  that  some  of  the  shots  fired  at  me  had  entered  the 
camp." 

Captain  Sponable  goes  on  to  say : 

"Bob  Gracey  was  taken  prisoner,  but  subsequently  escaped  by  drugging 
his  guard.  On  his  return  to  the  regiment  he  told  me  that,  while  a  prisoner,  he 
paid  an  Irishman  two  dollars  to  bury  two  men,  he  supposing  that  I  had  also 
been  killed,  as  was  Darling." 


24  HISTORY  OF   THE   THIRTY-FOURTH    REGIMENT 

There  was  a  good  deal  of  commotion  in  camp  the  night  this 
adventure  was  proceeding.  We  could  plainly  hear  the  firing.  The 
whole  regiment  was  ordered  out,  for  it  was  pretty  well  known  that 
there  was  a  force  of  rebels,  some  1,200  strong,  across  the  river,  with 
unknown  intentions,  and  Captain  Sponable  had  evidently  come  in  con 
tact  with  them.  The  regiment  was  advanced  to  the  river,  and  what: 
took  place  there  is  briefly  stated  by  an  officer  in  Company  C : 

"I  got  Company  C  in  a  position  that  commanded  the  river  for  a  mile 
or  two.  I  then  learned  that  Captain  Sponable  and  all  his  men  had  either  been 
killed,  or  taken  prisoners.  I  started  to  go  down  to  the  river  crosslots,  when 
whom  should  I  meet  but  Sponable  himself,  with  only  one  boot  on,  and  wrapped 
up  in  a  big  shawl.  Lost  one  boot,  leggings,  and  revolver  in  swimming  the 
river.  I  was  overjoyed  to  see  him,  but  could  not  help  laughing  at  his  ridicu 
lous  appearance." 

There  was  a  great  sensation  in  camp  when  the  Captain  arrived,  and 
this  was  repeated  some  time  later  in  the  month,  when  Bob  Gracey  him 
self  appeared  one  morning.  He  looked  as  if  he  had  had  a  hard  time,, 
and  indeed  he  had.  It  appears  that  he  had  been  shot  through  and 
through,  the  bullet  entering  his  chest,  passing  through  one  lung,  and 
out  at  his  back.  He  had  escaped,  as  stated  above,  by  drugging  his- 
guard.  "Big  Bob"  was  surrounded  by  the  comrades,  and  had  to  tell 
the  story  of  his  adventures  many  times  over  during  the  days  that  fol 
lowed.  It  was  this  experience  which  led  to  his  health  giving  out  entirely 
the  following  year,  and  in  October,  1862,  he  was  discharged  in  conse 
quence.  Among  the  men  who  had  followed  the  Major's  company  was 
Corporal  Zugg,  of  Company  D  (borne  on  the  rolls  as  Zaugg).  Zugg 
was  also  wounded,  but  made  his  escape  back  to  the  Maryland  shore. 
While  in  hospital,  suffering  from  his  wound,  he  was  attacked  with  lock 
jaw,  and  for  a  long  time  lay  in  this  condition,  his  jaws  firmly  set,  and 
just  space  enough  between  his  teeth  to  insert  a  knife  blade.  Zugg  was 
"  a  swarthy  little  runt  of  a  French  Canadian,"  and  had  been  a  soldier  in 
the  English  army  during  the  Crimean  war,  passing  through  all  its  many 
battles  unscathed.  Strange  behavior  of  fortune,  to  let  a  man  go 
unharmed  through  all  that  danger,  only  to  be  killed  later  in  a  little 
skirmish  on  the  Potomac.  Stranger  yet,  that  fortune  should  requite  this 
brave  man,  who  had  undertaken  to  fight  the  battles  of  freedom  for  his 
adopted  country,  by  bearing  him  ever  since  on  its  rolls  as  a  deserter. 
Another  singular  instance  of  unrequited  fortune,  in  connection  with  this 
little  excursion  into  Virginia,  was  the  case  of  Corporal  Kellogg,  also  of 
Company  D.  Kellogg  was  a  magnificent  specimen  of  physical  man 
hood,  and  as  handsome  as  a  picture.  He  was  taken  prisoner  at  the  same 
time,  and  was  never  able  afterward  to  return  to  the  regiment.  But  let 
this  bit  of  homely  philosophy  comfort  us :  they  also  served  their  coun 
try,  who  served  in  prison  walls. 

October  12,  occurred  an  event  tragic  and  shocking  in  the  extreme. 
Hiram  Burke  stabbed  and  killed  Lawrence  Rooney,  during  an  alterca 
tion.  Both  were  Company  B  men.  Burke  was  taken  to  the  Rockville, 
Md.,  jail,  and  the  regiment  moving  shortly  after,  the  only  record  we  can- 
trace  of  him  is  that  he  was  "  dishonorably  discharged  "  for  the  crime. 


CHAPTER  III 

EDWARD'S  FERRY.     BALL'S  BLUFF.    WINTER  AT  CAMP  McCLELLAN. 

THESE  scouting  expeditions  across  the  Potomac  thickened,  rather 
than  thinned,  as  the  season  advanced.  Finally,  there  was  an 
effort  on  the  part  of  General  McClellan,  now  in  command  oi 
the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  to  determine  the  strength  and  character  ot 
the  rebel  forces  scattered  along  the  upper  Potomac,  on  the  Virginia  side. 

It  was  the  fortune  of  the  Thirty-fourth  to  play  a  more  or  less 
important  part  in  that  little  red  drama,  known  in  the  annals  of  the  great 
rebellion,  as  the  Battle  of  Ball's  Bluff.  Leesburg,  nearly  opposite  us, 
was  a  good  sized  Virginia  town,  and  was  supposed  to  be  the  head 
quarters  for  quite  a  large  body  of  the  enemy.  General  Charles  P.  Stone 
was  in  immediate  command  on  our  side ;  and,  on  October  20,  received 
orders  from  McClellan  to  feel  the  ground  around  Leesburg.  With  this 
in  view,  he  directed  Colonel  Devens,  of  the  Fifteenth  Massachusetts,  to 
send  out  a  scouting  force,  to  determine  just  what  there  was  at  Leesburg. 
The  scouting  party  reported  a  small  force  only  in  sight;  whereupon 
five  companies  of  the  Fifteenth  were  thrown  across  at  Harrison's 
Island;  and  afterward  other  troops,  numbering,  all  told,  1,900  men. 
This  force  was  attacked  by  a  superior  force  of  rebels,  under  General 
Evans,  and  driven  into  the  river,  with  great  slaughter. 

Our  fortunes,  however,  lay  at  Edward's  Ferry,  some  four  miles 
below,  and  were  not  so  disastrous.  Monday  morning,  October  21,  we 
broke  camp  at  Seneca  Mills,  and  started  for  Poolesville,  some  eight 
miles  away.  We  were  soon  halted,  and  our  destination  changed  to 
Edward's  Ferry.  Arriving  at  that  place  about  noon,  we  found  the 
movement  across  the  river  already  under  way.  Two  regiments  were 
across  the  river,  and  others  waiting  for  the  ferry.  Heavy  cannonading 
was  kept  up  by  our  batteries  on  the  Maryland  side,  on  what  appeared  to 
be  rebel  redoubts  some  distance  back  from  the  river ;  but  without  draw 
ing  any  fire  from  that  direction.  The  means  of  transportation  to  the 
western  bank  of  the  river  were  nothing  to  brag  of.  Two  old  scows  had 
been  conscripted  from  the  adjacent  Chesapeake  and  Ohio  Canal,  and 
were  poled  back  and  forth  in  primitive  fashion.  During  the  afternoon 
our  turn  came,  and  for  the  first  time  the  regiment  squatted  on  the  sacred 
soil  of  old  Virginia.  Pickets  were  thrown  out,  and  the  scant  forces,  thus 
quite  isolated,  awaited  events.  Toward  midnight,  most  unsavory 
rumors  began  flying  about.  These  were  to  the  effect  that  Colonel 
Baker's  forces,  which  had  crossed  at  Harrison's  Island,  above,  had  been 
badly  cut  up ;  that  Colonel  Baker  himself,  had  been  killed ;  and  that  the 
victorious  enemy  were  now  on  their  way  to  give  us  a  dose  of  the  same 
medicine.  Immediately  began  a  hurried  retreat  back  across  the  river. 
This  continued  until  another  batch  of  rumors  started  flying — to  the 
effect  that  McClellan,  with  a  large  body  of  troops,  was  on  his  way  to 
reinforce  us,  coming  up  the  Virginia  side  of  the  river.  This  stopped 


EDWARD'S  FERRY  27 

the  retreat,  and  such  forces  as  had  been  taken  to  the  Maryland  side  were 
brought  back.  All  the  talk  now  was  about  an  immediate  advance  on 
Leesburg.  During  the  afternoon  following  we  were  suddenly  thrown 
into  great  excitement  by  hearing  volley  after  volley  of  musketry  dis 
charged  among  the  pickets,  and  soon  after  a  long  line  of  rebel  troops 
was  plainly  discernible,  just  in  rear  of  our  retreating  pickets.  At  this 
juncture,  two  pieces  of  artillery  opened  a  brisk  fire  upon  the  advancing 
enemy,  and  the  infantry  lined  up  for  action.  The  rebels,  however,  soon 
beat  a  hasty  retreat,  and  our  picket  line  was  immediately  restored. 
Company  G  \vas  thrown  forward  to  support  the  most  advanced  pickets, 
and  the  rest  of  the  regiment  held  in  reserve  well  toward  the  front.  A 
company  of  the  First  Minnesota,  another  regiment  of  the  brigade,  was 
on  the  right  of  Company  G,  and  during  the  brief  engagement  had  one 
man  killed,  and  another  wounded,  the  man  killed  receiving  four  bayonet 
thrusts  after  he  fell,  mortally  wounded  by  a  shot  through  the  hip. 
Wednesday  afternoon  there  was  again  some  commotion  out  on  the 
front,  but  nothing  came  of  it ;  and  Wednesday  night  the  troops  were  all 
transferred  back  to  the  Maryland  side. 

This  whole  event  acquires  importance  by  reason  of  what  took  place 
elsewhere,  rather  than  by  what  we  experienced.  There  is  no  reason 
why  we  should  not  have  had  a  dose  of  the  same  medicine  that  was  given 
to  the  Fifteenth  Massachusetts,  and  the  other  regiments  that  crossed  at 
Ball's  Bluff.  It  is  probable  the  enemy  did  not  understand  our  isolated 
position.  At  the  time  they  made  their  appearance,  as  above  recorded, 
General  Banks  had  a  large  force  on  the  Maryland  side,  waiting  to  cross. 
This  acted  as  a  first-class  bluff.  So  far  as  known,  Captain  Wells 
Sponable  of  Company  B,  and  Private  James  Faville  of  Company  K, 
were  the  last  persons  to  leave  the  Virginia  side.  Coming  to  the  river 
bank,  they  found  large  numbers  of  muskets,  and  a  great  quantity  of 
provisions,  abandoned  on  the  bank.  All  this  stuff  they  threw  into  the 
river  before  leaving. 

Greeley  in  his  "American  Conflict,"  describing  the  events  that 
took  place  at  Ball's  Bluff,  adds  this  in  regard  to  our  movement  at 
Edward's  Ferry : 

"Meanwhile  General  Stone  had  directed  General  Gorman  to  throw  across 
the  river  at  Edward's  Ferry,  a  small  force,  which  made  a  cautious  reconnais 
sance  for  about  three  miles,  on  the  road  to  Leesburg,  when,  coming  suddenly 
upon  a  Mississippi  regiment,  it  exchanged  volleys  and  returned.  General 
Gorman's  entire  brigade  was  thrown  over  at  this  point  during  the  day;  but, 
as  it  did  not  advance,  its  mere  presence  on  the  Virginia  side  of  the  Potomac,  so 
far  from  the  scene  of  the  actual  combat,  subserved  no  purpose.  After  the  dis 
aster  was  complete,  General  Stone,  about  ten  P.  M.,  arrived  on  the  ground, 
opposite  Ball's  Bluff,  from  which  our  ill-starred  advance  was  made,  as  did 
General  Banks  at  three  next  morning,  and  General  McClellan  on  the  evening 
of  that  day.  But  it  was  now  too  late.  No  relief  was  sent  while  relief  could 
have  availed.  Even  McCall  retired  from  Dranesville  southward  (on  the 
Virginia  side)  on  the  day  of  the  fatal  fight." 

On  recrossing  the  river  the  regiment  did  not  return  to  its  old  camp 
at  Seneca  Mills,  but  proceeded  to  Poolville,  where  it  went  into  camp, 
and  remained  until  the  following  spring.  This  camp  was  known  as 
"  Camp  McClellan."  At  this  time  we  were  brigaded  with  the  Fifteenth 


28 


HISTORY   OF   THE    THIRTY-FOURTH   REGIMENT 


Massachusetts,  First  Min 
nesota,  and  Eighty-second 
New  York  (formerly  Sec 
ond  New  York  Militia) 
under  the  command  of  Gen 
eral  Willis  A.  Gorman. 

Previous  to  this 
Edward's  Ferry  movement, 
Colonel  Ladew  had  re 
turned,  and  resumed  com 
mand  of  the  regiment ;  but, 
always  in  extremely  poor 
health,  and  seemingly  un 
able  to  endure  the  fatigue 
of  campaigning,  he  was 
unable  to  accompany  the 
regiment  across  the  river; 
and  was  again  compelled 
to  be  absent  from  his  com 
mand  until  the  2Oth  of 
February.  The  winter  on 
the  upper  Potomac  was  one 
of  much  severity.  In  spite 
of  stringent  orders  to  the 
contrary,  there  was  a  good 
deal  of  intercourse,  of  the  friendliest  character,  between  the  pickets  on 
the  opposite  sides  of  the  river. ,  There  were  a  good  many  meetings  in 
mid-stream,  much  commerce  in  the  way  of  swapping  of  coffee  for 
tobacco ;  swapping  of  newspapers  and  general  exchange  of  news  and 
views,  not  considered  contraband.  Not  infrequently  our  pickets  would 
cross  to  the  other  bank  or  the  rebs  to  ours,  for  purposes  of  more 
friendly  intercourse.  This  was  wholly  out  of  order,  of  course,  and  in 
fact,  dead  against  orders ;  and  more  than  one  officer  lost  his  head  on 
account  of  it.  But  neither  officers  nor  men  could  withstand  the  deadly 
fascination  of  the  game.  It  was  delicious.  And  the  officers  and  men 
on  the  reb  side  couldn't  abstain  from  it  any  more  than  we  could.  As 
the  winter  advanced,  river  and  canal  were  fast  locked  in  icy  fetters. 
And  then  the  northern  boys  wished  they  had  brought  their  skates ;  for 
they  could  see  the  Johnnies,  on  the  other  side,  having  a  good  time  on  the 
ice.  January  10,  there  was  a  heavy  fall  of  snow,  and  the  weather 
became  bitterly  cold.  The  rigors  of  picket,  down  on  the  river,  could 
not  be  abated ;  but  in  camp  the  men  made  themselves  as  comfortable  as 
possible.  Congenial  spirits  among  the  men,  drawn  together  by  that 
selective  affinity  which  sometimes  makes  strange  bedfellows,  would 
combine,  and  erect  little  log-walled  huts,  with  some  kind  of  rude  roof 
ing,  and  so  make  themselves  quite  cosey.  Then,  again,  some  strange 
josey,  would  go  and  live  by  himself,  solitary  like,  chumming  or  frater 
nizing  with  nobody.  It  was  his  way,  and  he  was  let  alone. 


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EDWARD'S  FERRY  29 

And  all  the  time  at  the  camps  there  was  drill,  drill :  company  drill, 
regimental  drill ;  and  three  times  a  week  there  was  brigade  drill.  These 
brigade  drills  were  grand  affairs,  and  quite  worthy  a  long  journey  to 
see.  Everything  was  spick  and  span,  bright  and  shining ;  and  three  brass 
bands,  and  several  drum  corps  in  the  brigade,  made  up  a  quite  over 
powering  mass  of  glory.  Occasionally,  also,  there  would  be  grand 
reviews  of  all  the  troops  in  that  vicinity,  serenely  contemplated  by  either 
the  great  General  George  B.  McClellan  himself,  or  by  General  Charles 
P.  Stone,  who,  if  it  had  not  been  for  the  red  memory  of  Ball's  Bluff, 
and  Edward's  Ferry,  might  have  counted  himself,  also,  to  have  been 
some  great  person.  But  at  this  time  the  Thirty-fourth  itself  had  no 
band ;  that  is,  had  not  the  real  brass  thing.  And  feeling  the  humiliat 
ing  position  in  which  this  naturally  placed  the  regiment,  there  was  a 
general  chipping  in,  the  brass  horns  were  ordered,  and  soon  the  Thirty- 
fourth  had  as  good  a  band  as  any.  This  story  teaches  us,  that,  in  time 
of  war,  if  you  can't  have  the  real  thing,  in  the  way  of  glory,  such 
as  battles  and  killings,  a  brass  band  is  the  first,  last,  and  best  sub 
stitute. 

To  the  everlasting  credit  of  all  the  officers  and  men,  be  it  said,  that 
there  was  the  most  determined  effort,  through  all  the  hard  winter,  to 
make  the  most  and  the  best  of  the  situation.  Largely  through  the 
exertions  of  Chaplain  Van  Petten,  there  was  erected  a  commodious 
chapel,  in  which  there  was  preaching  on  Sunday,  Bible  class  on  Mon 
day  evening,  prayer  meeting  on  Tuesday  and  on  Thursday  evenings, 
and  a  Lyceum  meeting  on  Wednesday  evening.  This  Lyceum  was  a 
great  thing.  And  the  debates  were  masterful  and  eloquent.  Some  of 
the  debates  were  on  war  topics,  and  the  state  of  the  country,  and  showed 
the  true  statesman-like  breadth  and  grip  of  events.  The  following 
were  the  officers :  President,  Lieutenant-Colonel  James  A.  Suiter ; 
Vice-President,  Captain  D.  J.  Rich ;  Secretary,  Lieutenant  W.  S.  Wal 
ton  ;  Treasurer,  Adjutant  George  W.  Thompson. 

We  observe  the  danger  we  encounter  in  this  narrative  of  making 
the  view  a  little  too  rosy.  We  note  with  regret  our  constant  tendency 
to  lean  that  way.  And,  lest  some  of  our  old  comrades  should  be  beguiled 
by  this  narrative  into  believing  that  they  must  have  had  a  very  delightful 
time  that  winter,  after  all,  we  will  have  to  admonish  them  not  to  forget 
how  it  rained  that  winter ;  how  it  snowed ;  how  it  froze ;  how  it  thawed 
and  let  the  bottom  drop  out  of  all  the  roads,  and  of  many  more  equally 
interesting  facts.  Some  men  thought  it  rained  all  the  time ;  but  this 
view  was  not  generally  held ;  for  quite  as  many  thought  it  snowed  all 
the  time ;  but  all  agreed  that  the  weather  was  doing  something  all  the 
time,  quite  extraordinary.  Hard  labor  was  incessant ;  sickness  was  very 
common ;  and  suffering  was  universal.  Living  on  the  raw  like  that,  is 
the  thing  to  bring  out  all  the  weak,  and  the  strong,  and  the  singular 
traits  in  human  nature.  You  find  out  all  that  was  born  in  a  man,  and 
all  that  he  has  since  acquired.  The  sharp  attrition  of  the  closely 
herded  camp  life  grinds  a  man  hard,  and  sometimes  uncovers  things 
not  suspected  before. 


3°  HISTORY   OF   THE   THIRTY-FOURTH    REGIMENT 

We  must  not  forget  to  speak  of  a  nice  little  event  that  occurred  on 
the  ist  of  February.  That  was  the  presentation  of  a  sword  to  Dr.  S. 
N.  Sherman,  the  surgeon  of  the  regiment.  Sherman  was  a  member  of 
Congress  yet,  and  away  a  good  deal  at  Washington.  But  on  the  occa 
sion  of  one  of  his  visits  to  camp  he  was  presented  with  a  fine  sword  and 
belt.  This  was  on  account  of  his  personal  care  and  interest  in  the  wel 
fare  of  the  men  on  the  occasion  of  the  crossing  at  Edward's  Ferry, 
October  21.  The  sword  bore  an  inscription  appropriate  to  that  event. 
The  doctor  was  a  very  popular  man  from  the  beginning  of  his  connec 
tion  with  the  regiment,  until  his  retirement  March  6,  1863,  to  accept 
the  position  of  Surgeon  of  United  States  Volunteers.  The  doctor, 
next  to  Lieutenant-Colonel  Suiter,,  was  the  oldest  officer  in  the  regi 
ment,  the  colonel  being  forty-four  years  old  at  the  time  of  entering  the 
service. 

From  early  in  August,  1861,  to  November  12,  1862,  Quartermaster 
Nathan  Easterbrook,  Jr.,  was  on  detached  duty  on  the  staff  of  General 
Gorman,  commanding  the  brigade.  During  the  interval,  this  depart 
ment  was  administered  at  first  by  First  Lieutenant  Elijah  R.  Brown, 
of  Company  A,  for  nearly  a  year;  and  afterward  by  First  Lieutenant 
Alfred  T.  Atwood,  of  Company  I.  Both  officers  served  the  regiment 
with  fidelity  and  ability.  In  one  of  the  letters  of  Lieutenant  W.  S. 
Walton  we  find  the  following  neat  little  allusion  to  Quartermaster 
Easterbrook : 

"Conspicuous  among  General  Gorman's  staff,  we  noticed,  on  both  occasions 
(brigade  reviews) ,  your  friend  and  fellow  townsman,  N.  Easterbrook,  Jr.,  now 
honored  with  the  duties  and  emoluments  of  Captain  Brigade  Quartermaster  and 
aide-de-camp.  Active,  earnest,  and  kind  to  all,  he  deserves  his  good  fortune,  and 
nothing  would  please  us  more  than  to  have  some  military  dignity  say,  'Come  up 
higher."' 

A  very  cheery  event  during  these  winter  months,  and,  in  fact, 
always,  was  the  arrival  of  the  paymaster.  In  those  days  we  were  paid 
off  in  coin,  and  the  formidable  twenty-dollar  gold  pieces  were  very 
much  in  evidence  in  the  regiment  after  these  visits.  A  snug  bit  of 
money  it  took  to  go  around ;  but  Paymaster  King  always  brought 
enough.  This  being  paid  in  coin  did  not  continue  long;  for  soon  the 
white  and  yellow  metals  disappeared,  and  did  not  reappear  as  currency 
for  more  than  eleven  vears. 


CHAPTER  IV 

MOVING  AT  LAST.     OPENING  OF  THE  BALTIMORE  AND  OHIO  R.R. 

AXD  so  the  winter  wore  away,  and  it  came  to  be  the  end  of  Febru 
ary.  After  a  thousand  rumors  had  settled  it  otherwise,  we 
finally,  on  February  26,  left  Camp  McClellan,  and  headed  for 
old  Virginia's  shore.  First  to  Adamstown,  where  we  took  train,  then  to 
Harper's  Ferry,  where  we  left  the  train,  and  crossed  the  Potomac  on  a 
pontoon  bridge.  This  is  where  the  Potomac  cuts  through  the  Blue  Ridge 
Mountains,  leaving  the  sharp  cleavage  of  Maryland  Heights  on  one 
side,  and  London  Heights  on  the  other.  While  here  the  men  took  up 
their  quarters  in  a  large  brick  building,  that  was  formerly  used  as  a  cot 
ton  factory.  When  we  went  down  to  the  dedication  of  our  monument 
September  17,  1902,  we  reached  Harper's  Ferry  the  first  night;  and  the 
next  morning  the  men  took  a  walk  down  to  the  old  factory,  which 
seemed  not  to  have  changed  much. 

At  that  time,  however,  1862,  outside  the  view  which  nature 
afforded,  there  was  little  of  natural  beauty.  On  the  contrary,  the  scene 
was  one  of  widespread  desolation.  War  had  surely  wrought  havoc  here. 
Here  were  the  ruins  of  the  United  States  Armory;  of  the  great  railroad 
bridge  of  the  Baltimore  and  Ohio ;  of  large  flouring  mills,  and  of  many 
other  important  buildings  ;  as  well  as  all  the  substantial  reminiscences 
of  the  John  Brown  episode ;  and  everywhere,  also,  the  reminders  of  the 
sanguinary  struggles  that  had  but  recently  taken  place  between  the 
Union  and  Confederate  forces.  The  boys  took  it  all  in. 

On  March  4  we  left  Harper's  Ferry,  and  moved  to  Bolivar  Heights, 
two  and  a  half  miles  away.  The  situation  here  was  a  most  command 
ing  one,  and  we  are  bound  to  see  a  good  deal  of  it,  first  and  last.  March 
7,  at  eight  A.  M.  the  brigade  leaves  old  Bolivar,  and  is  headed  south,  up 
the  Shenandoah  Valley.  At  ten  o'clock  it  is  near  Charlestown,  and 
goes  into  camp  in  the  edge  of  a  woods,  overlooking  the  beautiful  valley. 
Here  till  the  roth.  At  six  o'clock  in  the  morning,  in  the  midst  of  a 
pouring  rain,  it  is  off  again,  down  through  Charlestown,  and  headed 
for  Berryville.  Now  there  is  firing  ahead,  ominous  sounds  and  sights 
of  every  kind,  and  it  looks  as  if  our  time  had  come,  for  we  are  on  the 
very  frontier  of  the  advancing  column.  But  no ;  the  enemy  offers  but 
little  opposition,  and  soon  we  are  in  Berryville,  and  down  comes  the 
secesh  rag,  and  up  go  the  stars  and  stripes.  Still  there  are  threatening 
sounds  ahead,  until  our  cavalry  swoops  down  the  road,  and  just 
cleans  it. 

On  the  march  to  Charlestown,  where  John  Brown  was  hanged,  the 
regimental  bands  played  the  tune,  to  which  is  set  "Battle  Hymn  of  the 
Republic."  and  the  mighty  host,  marching  in  columns  miles  in  length, 
sang  the  familiar : 

"John  Brown's  body  lies  a-mouldering  in  the  grave, 
But  his  soul  goes  marching  on;" 


MOVING  AT  LAST 

and  when  the  chorus, "Glory, glory, Hallelujah, "was 
reached  the  volume  of  the  thousands  of  voices  was 
most  impressive.  As  foreshadowing  the  final  doom 
of  slavery,  it  was  very  significant.  The  rebel  sym 
pathizers,  in  return  for  this  expression  of  sentiment 
( for  we  could  now  and  then  hear  them,  although  we 
couldn't  see  them),  sang  in  reply: 

'  'Twas  in  Harper's  Ferry  section 
They  had  an  insurrection ; 
John  Brown  thought  the  niggers  would  sustain  him; 
But  old  Gov'nor  Wise, 
roi     BY  RON-  i  API  iv      i  S63          Dropped  the  specs  from  off  his  eyes, 

And  he  sent  him  to  the  happy  land  of  Canaan." 

This  little  town  of  Berryville  boasted  a  newspaper  called  The  Con 
servator.  Its  editor  was  dead  set  against  anything  like  progress,  but 
managed  to  get  a  move  on,  when  the  Yanks  showed  up ;  and  some  of 
our  boys  thought  it  too  bad  for  the  subscribers  to  be  without  their 
accustomed  home  paper  for  even  one  day.  So  some  of  them  turned  in, 
and  resumed  the  publication.  The  first  number  issued  by  the  new  man 
agement  was  a  model  in  its  way.  There  were  short  stories,  poems, 
and  lots  of  good  news,  right  down  to  date,  from  the  seat  of  war.  A 
great  many  new  subscribers  were  added  to  the  list.  But  the  manage 
ment  concluded  that  Winchester  would  be  a  better  field  for  an  enter 
prise  of  that  kind,  and  accordingly,  on  the  I3th,  started  out,  with  Win 
chester  only  ten  miles  away. 

But  it  is  monotonous  always  marching  in  one  direction,  and,  accord 
ingly,  when  within  only  two  miles  of  that  much  desired  haven,  the  order 
came  to  about  face,  and  night  found  us  again  back  in  Berryville,  a  little 
the  worse  for  wear.  The  publication  of  The  Conservator  is  discon 
tinued  on  account  of  a  pressure  of  other  duties.  There  was  a  good 
deal  of  pressure  on  our  columns  at  that  time.*  Hon.  A.  C.  Brundage 
furnishes  us  with  the  following  account  of  a  little  incident  which 
occurred  in  Company  I  at  this  time : 

"Soon  after  reaching  camp  at  Berryville,  on  the  advance  southward,  Com 
pany  I  was  detailed  to  go  out  on  picket  on  the  Millwood  road.  The  next  morn 
ing  the  army,  including  Gorman's  brigade,  went  on  toward  Winchester  without 
calling  in  Company  I,  which  had  provisioned  only  for  that  night  and  the  morning. 
After  noon,  Lieutenant  Brundage  sent  the  writer,  with  four  men,  back  to  Berry 
ville,  for  provisions.  Imagine  our  surprise,  on  reaching  there,  to  find  the  regi 
ment  and  the  army  gone,  and  no  show  for  rations  in  sight.  While  looking  over 
the  situation,  and  speculating  on  our  forlorn  prospects,  we  were  relieved  by 
seeing  Captain  Brown,  then  Brigade  Quartermaster,  and  an  escort,  coming  from 
the  direction  of  Winchester,  the  army  having  been  ordered  to  retrace  its  steps 
the  same  day.  The  army  and  all  stores  were  some  miles  away,  except  two  or 
three  wagons  that  he  had  brought  on  in  advance ;  and  from  these  Captain  Brown 


*The  Fifteenth  Massachusetts  and  the  First  Minnesota  have  each  always  claimed  the  honor 
of  having  furnished  the  editor  of  The  Conservator;  but  there  is  equally  good  evidence  that  the 
editor  was  none  other  than  Sanford  Helmer  of  Co.  F.  We  have  found  it  impossible  to  get  hold 
of  a  copy  of  this  paper.  We  suppose  when  this  history  is  published,  and  it  is  everlastingly  too 
late,  half  a  dozen  comrades  will  send  us  copies. — ED. 


COLONEL    BYRON    LAFLIN 1884 


34  HISTORY   OF   THE   THIRTY-FOURTH   REGIMENT 

gave  us  a  small  stock  of  rations,  and  impressed,  for  their  transportation  out  to  our 
picket  post,  a  man  with  a  team  and  wagon.  Captain  Brown  informed  us  that 
the  army  would  be  back  to  Berry ville  that  night." 

On  Friday,  March  14,  we  are  again  back  at  Charlestown,  and  on 
the  following  day  are  on  the  top  of  old  Bolivar.  This  most  remarkable 
excursion  into  eastern  Virginia  is  known  in  very  profane  annals  as 
"  The  Opening  of  the  Baltimore  and  Ohio  Railroad."  The  movement 
also  had  another  effect,  that  of  drawing  together  widely  separated 
organizations  that  properly  belonged  together ;  and  accordingly,  for  the 
first  time,  Sedgwick's  Division  was  all  together ;  and  at  this  time,  March 
13,  according  to  the  testimony  of  so  good  an  authority  as  General 
Francis  A.  Walker,  the  historian  of  the  Second  Corps,  that  forever  to 
be  famous  organization,  the  Second  Corps,  which,  under  a  series  of 
famous  generals,  beginning  with  Sumner,  and  ending  with  Hancock, 
the  Superb,  had  its  birth.  And  so  the  Thirty-fourth  found  itself  in  the 
First  Brigade,  of  the  Second  Division,  of  the  Second  Corps.  And 
Edwin  V.  Sumner  was  the  great  corps'  first  commander.  Later  on 
every  one  of  the  many  corps  in  the  army,  had  its  distinctive  badge,  or 
symbol.  Thus,  the  symbol  of  the  Second  Corps,  was  a  trefoil,  or  clover 
leaf.  And  each  division  of  this  corps  had  a  different  color.  Every 
soldier  and  officer  in  the  army  was  required  to  wear  this  badge  on  his 
hat,  or  cap,  the  color  corresponding  to  his  division.  Thus,  meeting  a 
soldier  anywhere  with  a  white  clover  leaf  on  his  hat,  you  would  know, 
at  once  that  he  belonged  to  the  Second  Division  of  the  Second  Corps. 
The  First  Division  in  our  corps,  was  Richardson's,  and,  of  course,  his 
men  all  wore  the  red  trefoil.  These  symbols  have  everywhere  been 
maintained,  in  veteran  organizations,  since  the  war,  and  are  constantly 
seen. 

Another  important  event  occurred  during  this  brief  expedition, 
and  that  was  the  resignation  of  Colonel  Ladew.  He  had  returned  to 
the  regiment  from  New  York  State  on  February  20,  as  stated ;  but  was 
never  in  good  health  with  the  army ;  and  being  again  prostrated  with 
sickness,  he  at  this  time,  gave  up  for  good.  His  resignation  was  dated 
March  20,  1862  ;  and  Lieutenant-Colonel  James  A.  Suiter,  who,  so  much 
of  the  time,  had  been  in  active  command  of  the  regiment,  immediately 
succeeded  to  the  vacancy.  This  sent  all  the  under  staff  officers  up  a 
notch ;  in  fact,  caused  an  upward  movement  from  the  very  bottom ; 
Laflin  becoming  lieutenant-colonel,  and  Captain  Charles  L.  Brown,  of 
Company  G,  becoming  major. 

Well,  we  left  the  Thirty- fourth  on  old  Bolivar ;  but  not  for  long  did 
they  remain  there.  Some  colossal  move  was  pending.  Such  a  great 
army  must  be  doing  something,  and,  strangely  enough,  our  next  move 
was  on  Washington.  On  the  22d  we  marched  to  Sandy  Hook,  on  the 
Maryland  side,  where  we  trained,  and  the  next  morning,  by  three 
o'clock,  we  were  in  Washington,  where  we  went  into  camp  right  in 
front  of  the  Capitol  building.  Some  of  the  boys  immediately  went  to 
Congress. 


CHAPTER  V 

THE  PENINSULAR  CAMPAIGN 

MARCH  29,  1862,  finds  the  Thirty-fourth  Regiment,  with  nearly 
all  the  rest  of  the  First  Brigade,  on  board  steamer  R.  Wil 
liams,  anchored  for  a  little  time  directly  in  front  of  Mount 
Vernon,  on  the  Potomac  River,  having  shipped  from  Alexandria  same 
day.  But  this  stay  is  only  brief,  and  incidental.  Two  days  later  the 
same  regiment  finds  itself  on  the  same  good  ship,  anchored  within 
a  stone's  throw  of  the  famous  Fortress  Monroe,  and  Old  Point  Com 
fort.  Near  by  were  many  other  ships,  crowded  with  men,  who  had 
come  down  the  river  on  the  same  expedition  as  ourselves,  what 
ever  that  may  be.  Likewise  you  might  have  seen  a  little  boat  that 
presently  is  to  revolutionize  all  modern  naval  warfare,  and  all  the 
navies  of  the  world;  albeit,  it  was  the  most  unpretentious  object  in 
the  whole  aggregation.  It  was  the  little  Monitor,  resting  after  her 
conflict  with  the  Merrimac,  March  9.  The  sail  down  the  river,  except 
for  a  heavy  snowstorm  just  at  the  start,  had  been  uneventful,  al 
though,  for  a  portion  of  the  voyage,  it  was  pretty  rough  sailing. 
The  next  day,  April  I,  the  vessel  proceeded  to  Hampton,  where 
the  troops  were  landed.  The  condition  of  Hampton  at  this  time  was 
that  of  a  perfect  ruin.  By  order  of  the  Confederate  authorities  every 
building  in  the  place  had  been  burned.  The  inhabitants  were  turned 
out,  destitute,  forlorn,  forsaken.  This  destruction  was  probably  about 
as  wanton  and  cruel,  and  uncalled-for  as  any  act  in  the  whole  history  of 
the  rebellion.  The  story  is  told  by  the  good  Chaplain,  Rev.  J.  J.  Marks, 
attached  to  Kearney's  Division,  and  who  wrote  a  little  book  on  the 
Peninsular  campaign,  that  after  the  rebels  had  evacuated  the  town,  a 
detachment  of  soldiers  was  sent  back  to  attend  to  this  burning  business  ; 
and  that  one  of  the  officers  stayed  at  night  with  his  uncle.  After  he  had 
had  a  good  visit  with  his  uncle's  family,  and  they  had  talked  about  old 
times  in  a  very  tender  fashion,  and  breakfast  being  over,  and  family 
prayers  being  said,  the  officer  informed  his  astonished  uncle  that  he  had 
been  sent  back  to  burn  the  town,  and  that,  as  a  matter  of  conscience,  he 
considered  it  his  duty  to  begin  with  that  house,  which  he  did. 

The  morning  of  April  4th  finds  the  regiment  advancing  toward 
Yorktown,  and  that  night  the  stop  is  made  at  Big  Bethel,  which  had 
been  the  scene  of  one  of  the  earlier  conflicts,  when  Theodore  Winthrop, 
the  author  of  two  of  the  brightest  books  ever  published,  fell  for  the 
honor  of  his  country,  April  5  at  Yorktown.  The  passing  traveler, 
along  that  "  thoroughfare,"  would  have  been  astonished  at  the  magni 
tude  of  the  task  accomplished  in  the  construction,  within  so  short  a  time, 
of  that  road  through  the  wilderness,  to  Yorktown.  The  march  is  over 
miles,  and  miles,  of  corduroy  road.  Now  a  corduroy  road  is  built  by 
laying  one  little  log  beside  another,  and  sometimes  covering  them-  with 


36  HISTORY   OF   THE  THIRTY-FOURTH    REGIMENT 

dirt.  How  many  little  logs  in  a  mile?  how  many  in  ten  miles?  every 
log  a  tree,  that  had  to  be  cut  down,  stripped  of  limbs,  and  laid  in  its 
place,  making  a  military  road,  that  horses  could  travel  over  safely,  and 
haul  heavy  loads  over ;  and  through  swamps  at  that. 

All  the  way  up  to  Yorktown  there  were  most  formidable  fortifica 
tions.  At  Big  Bethel,  and  again  at  a  place  called  Harrison's  Mill, 
there  were  works  that  would  have  withstood  a  long  siege.  Why  were 
they  so  quickly  abandoned?  The  answer  to  this  conundrum  was  fur 
nished  by  a  young  lady  of  color,  who  was  found,  with  many  other 
people  of  her  persuasion,  eagerly  appropriating  what  the  rebels  had 
abandoned :  "  Oh,"  said  she,  "  de  booms  dugged  'em  out."  Now,  at 
Yorktown,  we  find  the  same  formidable  works ;  and  evidently  the  rebs 
have  no  idea  of  leaving  them  in  a  hurry.  "  De  booms  "  don't  seem  to 
worry  'em,  and  they  give  back  as  good  as  we  send. 

The  siege  of  Y'orktown  lasted  just  a  month,  and  it  was  a  period  of 
hard  work.  Every  soldier  became  a  digger.  Picks  and  shovels  are 
the  weapons  now.  Heavy  details  every  day,  to  dig  trenches,  and  throw 
up  earthworks.  And  dangerous  picket  duty,  too,  in  front  of  the  enemy. 
Pickets  had  to  be  changed  at  night ;  for  no  movement  of  that  kind  could 
be  made  by  daylight,  we  were  so  close.  And  the  weather !  Don't 
speak  of  it.  Rain  it  could,  and  rain  it  did.  Said  one  soldier,  writing 
home  on  April  9 :  "  We  passed  another  terrible  night  last  night.  The 
rain  fell  in  torrents  and  we  were  completely  soaked.  To  stand  out 
anywhere,  last  night,  and  hear  the  coughing,  and  the  '  Oh  dears/  which 
told  the  actual  suffering,  was  almost  as  bad  as  to  pass  through  the  hos 
pitals  after  a  battle.  Yet,"  adds  this  philosopher,  "  it  is  not  well  to 
complain  of  the  weather."  Another  man,  writing  home  at  this  time, 
says  he  had  made  up  his  mind  not  to  turn  in  at  all  that  night,  the  pros 
pect  of  getting  any  sleep  was  so  slim.  Typhoid  fever,  that  inevitable 
accompaniment  of  swamp  ground,  and  wet  weather,  was  quite  preva 
lent.  Out  on  picket  there  was  continual  snipping.  You  mustn't  show 
your  head,  if  you  didn't  want  it  perforated.  Every  day  the  earthworks 
rose  and  rose,  and  presently  black-throated  guns  began  to  peer  over 
them.  It  seemed  like  it  was  to  be  a  siege ;  while  every  day  there  was 
talk  about  an  assault.  What  that  Great  Procrastinator,  General  McClel- 
lan,  intended  to  do,  it  would  be  hard  to  say.  Now  balloons,  in  war  time,, 
are  supposed  to  be  a  great  help.  You  can  see  over  into  the  enemy's 
country,  and  see  all  he  is  doing.  That  must  make  him  feel  very  uncom 
fortable.  And  seeing  just  what  he  is  doing,  you  know  just  what  to  do- 
yourself.  Of  course.  Now  the  Union  balloon  was  up  most  every  day, 
and  sharp-eyed  men  in  it  were  peering  over  into  the  rebel  lines.  We 
were  not  to  be  caught  napping.  If  they  were  doing  anything,  we  should 
know  it  as  soon  as  they  did.  Clearly  enough,  a  balloon  is  a  great  thing 
in  war  time.  May  3,  and  the  writer  of  this  was  out  on  the  front  line, 
digging  with  the  rest.  Some  one  said,  "There  is  the  balloon."  And1 
sure  enough  there  it  was,  taking  a  good  look,  just  as  it  had  every  day. 
But  there  was  nothing  to  be  seen,  and  we  kept  on  digging.  The  next 
morning  what  should  we  hear  but  that  the  rebels  had  left,  bag  and  bag- 


THE  PENINSULAR  CAMPAIGN  37 

gage ;  and  they  had  been  leaving,  bag  and  baggage,  for  days  before 
hand.  And  we  had  never  known  a  thing  of  what  they  were  up  to. 
Surely  a  balloon,  in  time  of  war,  is  a  great  thing.  It  contains  a  great 
deal  of  gas  ;  but  not  much  solid  information.  Of  course  "Little  Mack" 
could  have  known  what  the  rebs  were  up  to ;  but  that  wasn't  his  busi 
ness.  His  business  was  to  howl  for  reinforcements.  One  man  can't 
do  everything. 

The  writer  of  this  sketch  wrote  a  series  of  letters  to  a  home  paper, 
(the  Mohawk  Courier)  during  the  whole  period  of  the  regiment's 
service,  letters  which  now  have  helped  him  out  on  many  a  name  and 
date.  And  we  find  that  he  wrote,  at  this  time,  Sunday  morning,  May  4, 
the  following:  "At  the  time  of  the  announcement  of  the  evacuation,  we 
were  lying  on  picket,  scarcely  half  a  mile  from  the  nearest  point  of  the 
rebel  works ;  and  it  seemed  almost  incredible  that  these  towering  battle 
ments,  from  which  the  enemy  had  been  thundering  all  night  long,  had 
been  forsaken."  But  they  had. 

At  once  the  news  ran,  like  a  fire,  along  the  lines,  and  without  a 
moment's  delay  the  men  began  to  swarm  over  into  the  rebel  works. 
With  what  interest  did  they  prowl  about,  exploring  every  nook.  It 
would  consume  a  great  deal  of  valuable  space,  if  we  should  try  to 
describe  the  works.  They  were  certainly  very  extensive.  The  enemy 
had  left  no  stone  unturned.  After  a  while  we  learned  that  the  streets 
were  paved  with  danger.  Bombs  would  explode  under  the  feet  of  the 
swarming  soldiers.  The  wonder  is  that  no  more  were  hurt.  Why 
should  the  rebels  abandon  such  formidable  works  ?  It  was  a  clear  case. 
It  was  because  of  the  terror  that  the  name  of  Little  Mack  inspired. 

On  Monday  afternoon  following  our  brigade  began  to  move  for 
ward.  But  that  afternoon  and  night  were  a  time  long  to  be  remem 
bered.  We  thought  we  had  heard  of  its  raining  before,  and  all  during 
the  siege;  but  it  never  rained  till  the  night  of  May  5,  1862.  Reader, 
you  have  heard  of  its  raining  pitchforks.  But  this  was  every  whit  as 
bad ;  for  there  was  a  reign  of  terror.  It  was  bitterly  cold,  blowing 
great  guns,  and  raining  torrents.  We  pretended  to  be  on  the  march ; 
we  were  hot  after  the  fleeing  rebs  ;  we  were  threshing  the  ground  just  in 
their  rear ;  but  to  tell  the  naked  truth  we  must  have  advanced  about  ten 
rods,  all  night ;  we  would  not  like  to  overstate  the  distance.  There  was 
no  road  ;  but  there  was  a  river  of  mud.  The  men  built  such  fires  as  they 
could,  and  sang,  and  joked,  and  told  stories  of  people  at  home  in  com 
fortable  beds,  and  nagged  each  other,  with  "  Soldier,  will  you  work?  " 
"  No,  I'll  sell  my  shirt  first ;"  and  all  that  sort  of  tirade,  which  showed 
the  dreadful  depravity  of  the  situation.  Along  toward  morning  we 
were  ordered  back  to  "our  old  camp.  O,  McClellan  is  a  hustler  when 
he  gets  after  a  fleeing  enemy. 

But  the  next  day,  as  it  wore  on,  out  came  the  sun,  the  sky  became 
blue,  the  noisy  winds  blew  themselves  away;  and  all  the  discomforts 
of  the  past  night  were  cheerfully  forgiven.  That  day  we  took  the 
little  steamer,  Daniel  S.  Williams,  and  went  thirty  miles  up  the  river 
to  West  Point.  WTe  reached  it  just  a  little  too  late  to  take  part  in  the 


HISTORY   OF   THE    THIRTY-FOURTH   REGIMENT 


bloody  battle  of  Wil- 
1  i  a  m  s  b  u  r  g.  But 
some  of  the  men 
went  over  the  field, 
and  the  sights  they 
saw  were  bloody. 
The  woods  were 
thickly  strewn  with 
the  dead  and 
wounded,  and  the 
buildings  in  the 
town  were  filled  with 
the  same.  The 
rebels  had  fled  so 
precipitately  that 
they  had  been  com 
pelled  to  leave  all 
their  wounded  be 
hind,  and  their 
dead  unburied. 
The  inhabitants  of 
the  town  had  become 
terror-stricken,  and 
fled  from  the  ap 
proach  of  the  terrible 
Yankees.  The  roads 
leading  away  from 
town  were  strewn 

with  property  thrown  away  by  the  inhabitants,  in  their  flight.  And 
farther  away  the  roads  were  choked  with  fleeing  women,  and  children, 
and  servants.  Surely,  war  sweeps  with  a  harsh  broom. 

The  next  stage  in  our  advance  brings  us  to  New  Kent  Court  House. 
Here  we  arrive  Saturday,  May  10,  having  left  West  Point  the  day 
before.  During  the  march  we  halt  for  a  few  hours,  along  with  the  entire 
division  of  infantry,  cavalry,  and  artillery,  about  11,000  men,  on  a  splen 
did  farm,  owned  by  a  man  by  the  name  of  Eltham.  "  There  were  more 
guests  at  table  than  the  host  invited."  And  there  were  others.  For 
just  now  the  army  is  attacked  in  front,  rear,  and  flank,  by  armies  of 
mosquitoes.  Their  onslaught  was  sudden  and  vigorous,  and  victorious. 
They  carried  the  day,  leaving  the  field  covered  with  the  bodies  of  their 
victims.  The  weather,  also,  was  an  enemy  in  itself ;  for  it  was  blistering 
hot,  and  the  men  were  completely  whipped  out  with  the  march.  Scores 
fell  out ;  but  at  New  Kent  Court  House  they  had  a  chance  to  catch  up, 
and  the  whole  army  again  got  its  wind.  The  reports  at  that  time 
showed  that  there  were  15,000  sick  men  in  the  Army  of  the  Potomac. 

Thursday,  the  I5th,  we  are  on  the  road  again,  and  come  to  a  little 
place  called  Austin's  Church.  This  march  to  Austin's  Church  was  a 
tough  one.  The  mud  was  over  shoetops ;  the  soil  was  a  sticky  clay, 


1862 CAPTAIX  IRVING  D.  CLARK 1903 


THE  PENINSULAR  CAMPAIGN 

which  held  the  feet  like 
a  bootjack,  or  else 
slipped  and  threw  you 
down.  On  the  i8th  we 
broke  camp  at  Austin's 
Church,  and  came  on  to 
a  place  which  we  called 
Camp  Cumberland, 
where  we  remained  until 
the  2 1  st.  That  day, 
Wednesday,  May  21, 
was  also  a  day  long  to  be 
remembered.  You  see 
we  are  getting  our  mem 
ories  pretty  full  of  these 
long-to-be  remembered 
days.  We  broke  camp 
at  6  o'clock  in  the  morn 
ing,  and  marched  four 
teen  miles.  People  at 
home  often  read  in  the 
papers  about  long, 
forced  marches  of  twen 
ty-five  or  thirty-five  or 
more  miles  a  day. 
Stories  like  these  are 
generally  to  be  dis 
counted,  the  same  as 
stories  about  men  "itch 
ing  for  a  fight."  With 
all  a  soldier  has  to  carry, 
and  the  circumstances 
under  which  he  does  his 

traveling,  being  usually  in  a  crowded  road,  with  frequent  and  tedious 
halts — for  what,  nobod'y  knows,  we  called  this  march  of  fourteen  miles, 
under  a  burning  sun,  a  record  breaker.  All  day  long  we  were  pushed 
on  unmercifully.  The  mud  had  now  changed  to  dry  sand,  and  the  men 
suffered  greatly  from  thirst.  As  one  officer  wrote'  home :  "As  a  gen 
eral  thing  water  was  scarce  and  precious  as  molten  gold  ;  while  the  little 
that  could  be  obtained  after  a  rush  and  push  and  a  general  squabble, 
was  too  foul  to  drink."  Men  and  officers  as  well,  fell  out  of  the  ranks 
by  the  dozens.  It  is  said  three  poor  fellows  died  from  heat  and  ex 
haustion.  But  there  is  no  doubt  about  the  beauty  of  that  country.  We 
passed  many  fine  old  mansions  on  the  way,bowered  in  trees,  overlooking 
broad  acres,  and  surrounded  by  orchards  and  fields  of  growing  corn. 
Always  near  these  old  mansions,  the  darkies  were  very  much  in  evi 
dence,  and  greatly  excited  at  the  coming  of  the  Yanks.  At  one  point 
we  passed  Roper's  Church,  the  place  where  Washington  was  married 


IQOO CAPTAIN    \VILLIAM    S.    WALTOX 1863 


4O  HISTORY  OF   THE   THIRTY-FOURTH    REGIMENT 

to  the  beautiful  Mrs.  Martha  Custis.  Late  in  the  afternoon  we  arrived 
within  two  miles  of  Bottom's  Bridge,  and  encamped  in  an  open  field 
near  the  Richmond  &  York  River  Railroad.  We  then  learned  that  we 
were  fourteen  miles  from  Richmond,  and  twenty-six  miles  from  West 
Point.  The  men  were  greatly  elated  to  learn  that  the  Eighty-first  and 
Ninety-second  Xew  York  Regiments  and  Bates'  Artillery,  were  en 
camped  near  by,  and  there  was  a  great  deal  of  visiting  back  and  forth. 

The  22d  was  a  day  of  rest.  On  Friday,  the  23d,  began  the  issue 
of  the  famous  whiskey  ration.  Half  a  gill  was  doled  out  to  every  man 
twice  a  day.  There  was  some  debate  among  the  men  in  regard  to  the 
propriety  of  this  whiskey  business.  It  wasn't  very  likely  to  keep  men 
from  getting  sick,  and  it  was  pretty  certain  to  make  mischief.  The 
temperance  men,  not  wanting  the  stuff  themselves,  had  compunctions 
about  giving  it  to  others. 

Monday,  May  26th,  found  us  at  the  Tyler  House,  an  old-time  slave 
plantation,  the  home  of  the  President  Tyler  family.  Here  we  remained 
until  May  31,  a  date  that  will  always  stand  as  a  marked  one  in  Ameri 
can  history. 

The  following  is  the  program  prescribed  for  us  in  General  Order 
No.  4,  dated  August  8,  1861,  at  Camp  Jackson  and  which  had  been 
followed  ever  since,  with  few  variations:  Reveille,  (all  up,)  5  a.  m. 
Company  Drill,  (no  excuses  accepted,)  5.30.  Surgeon's  Call,  (the 
very  sick  ordered  to  the  hospital,)  5.30.  Breakfast,  (you  got  your  own,) 
7.  'Morning  Roll  Call,  (hurry  up,  and  get  in  line,)  8.  Guard  Mount 
ing,  (unlucky  Tommy  Atkins,  who  has  to  go  on,)  9.  Discharge  of 


ion  Drill,  (what  new  knot  is  that  blankety  blank  officer  going  to  tie  us 
up  in  to-day?)  6.  Dress  Parade,  (a  dozen  or  more  new  orders  for  one 
thing  and  another,)  7.  Company  Roll  Call,  (stentorian  voice  of  Talcott, 
"Sir,  all  are  present,  or  accounted  for,")  8.  Retreat,  (far  up  and  down 
the  valley,  and  across  the  hills,  gleam  the  pale  lights  through  the  white 
tents,)  9'  Tattoo,  (Get  Phil  Will  and  Johnny  Johnson,  and  come  around 
to  my  tent,  and  we'll  have  a  game  on  the  quiet.")  9.  Lights  out,  (and  the 
great  camp  sleeps,  while  the  faithful  sentries,  down  at  the  river,  and 
hovering  about  the  camp,  pace  their  lonely  beats,  dreaming  of  the  loved 
ones  far  away,  and  of  the  comrades  who  will  never  wake  to  greet  the 
morning  light;  calling,  calling,  through  the  night:  "Ten  o'clock,  eleven 
o'clock,' twelve  o'clock,  and  all  is  well.")  9.30. 


CHAPTER   VI 

THE  BATTLE   OF  FAIR  OAKS 

OX  the  morning  of  the  3ist  of  May,  we  began  to  hear  heavy 
firing  ahead,  and  knew  that  something  serious  was  brewing. 
We  found  out  later  what  it  was.  It  appears  that  McClellan's 
army  at  this  time  was  divided.  The  Chickahominy  River  extends 
nearly  east  and  west  in  this  region,  and  the  Third  and  Fourth  Corps 
of  the  army  were  on  the  south  side;  while  the  Second,  Fifth  and 
Sixth  were  on  the  north  side.  Two  bridges  had  been  thrown  over 
the  river  by  General  Sumner.  The  Confederates  were  sharp  enough 
to  perceive  that  they  had  a  great  opportunity.  A  severe  storm,  which 
broke  on  Friday  caused  the  river  to  overflow  these  bridges,  and  ren 
dered  the  situation  of  the  divided  army  perilous.  A  disaster  might 
befall  at  any  time  these  two  isolated  corps  of  the  Federal  army,  and 
it  did. 

We  are  not  going  to  undertake  to  describe  the  Battle  of  Fair  Oaks 
in  detail,  for  we  are  chiefly  concerned  with  the  part  taken  in  the  battle 
by  the  Thirty-fourth  Regiment.  General  Johnston,  of  the  rebel  army, 
perceived  his  advantage,  and  attacked  Casey's  and  Couch's  Divisions  of 
the  Fourth  Corps  with  disastrous  results.  Along  in  the  afternoon,  we 
were  pushed  rapidly  forward  from  the  Tyler  House  toward  the  sound 
of  heavy  firing.  We  reached  the  banks  of  the  Chickahominy  River,  but 
were  halted  at  the  river's  brink.*  The  grapevine  bridge,  on  which  we 
were  supposed  to  cross,  was  floating  on  the  water.  After  a  long  wait, 
we  did  get  over ;  and  the  writer  of  these  lines,  now,  after  forty  years' 
interval,  does  not  remember  that  the  passage  was  particularly  hazardous. 
But  General  Francis  A.  Walker  says :  "  The  long  corduroy  approaches 


*  In  the  history  of  the  Fifth  New  Hampshire  Regiment,  Colonel  Edward  E.  Cross  commanding, 
we  find  the  following  description  of  this  bridge : 

"Grapevine  bridge  was  built  across  the  Chickahominy  River,  some  six  miles  above  the  cross 
ing  of  the  Williamsburg  and  Richmond  stage-road  at  Bottom's  Bridge,  for  the  passage  of  Sedgwick's 
Division  of  Sumner's  Corps  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  from  the  north  to  the  south  side.  It  was 
built  in  two  days,  May  27  and  28,  1862,  by  the  Fifth  Regiment,  directed  by  Colonel  Edward  E. 
Cross,  aided  by  a  detail  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  men  from  the  Sixty-fourth  Regiment,  New  York 
Volunteers,  and  one  hundred  and  fifty  men  from  Meagher's  Irish  Brigade.  More  than  one  thousand 
men  were  employed  in  its  construction,  working  constantly  and  vigorously  in  the  water  and  mud. 
It  was  built  wholly  of  logs,  unsawn  and  unhewn,  cut  from  the  forest  as  required,  being  rolled  or 
floated  into  position  by  men  wading  or  swimming.  The  channels  and  deeper  parts  of  the  swamp 
were  bridged  by  felling  or  floating  large  trees  across  and  fixing  them  upon  piers  made  of  logs,  to 
stumps,  or  to  the  firm  earth  upon  either  bank.  Other  stringers  were  placed  upon  the  bottom  of  the 
shallows,  all  being  about  the  same  level.  Thus  a  continuous  support  for  a  roadway  was  laid  for  a 
distance  of  seventy  rods.  Then,  upon  these  stringers,  were  laid,  transversely,  as  planks  might  be, 
other  logs,  as  long  as  the  bridge  was  wide.  These  were  arranged  closely,  side  by  side,  and  served  as 
flooring.  Over  these,  upon  either  side  of  the  bridge,  directly  over  the  outer  stringers,  were  placed 
still  other  logs,  end  to  end.  All  were  made  firm  by  interweaving  grapevines.  Not  a  pin,  dowel, 
bolt  or  nail  entered  into  its  construction.  It  was  fifteen  feet  wide,  rising  just  above  the  surface  of 
the  water  through  the  swamp  and  only  two  or  three  feet  above  the  current  of  the  channels.  It  was 
sufficiently  firm  and  substantial  to  furnish  safe  and  ready  crossing  to  an  army  of  men,  with  horses, 
wagons  and  field  artillery.  The  approach  upon  the  north  side  was  cut  through  an  embankment 
ten  feet  in  height;  upon  the  south  side,  after  leaving  the  corduroy,  the  road  was  deplorable  for  half 
a  mile  before  reaching  the  higher  land.  The  bridge  withstood  the  greatest  flood  ever  known  upon 
that  river  and  swamp,  served  all  its  intended  purposes,  and  remained  after  the  waters  had  subsided. 
On  May  31  it  was  crossed  by  Sedgwick's  Division  at  about  2  o'clock  p.  M.,  which  was  thus  enabled 
to  arrive  on  the  battlefield  "of  Fair  Oaks  just  in  time  to  arrest  the  triumphant  advance  of  the  Con 
federate  army,  which  was  pursuing  the  Federal  troops  to  a  disastrous  rout." 


FAIR    OAKS,    THE    ADAMS    HOUSE    AND        OUR    FIELD        ON    RIGHT IQO2 


u 

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FAIR    OAKS.       THE    WILLIAMSBURG    ROAD 1902 

We  charged  across  the  Field  on  the  Left,  into  the  Woods  on  the  Right. 


THE  BATTLE  OF  FAIR  OAKS  43 

through  the  swamp  had  been  uplifted  from  the  mud,  and  now  floated 
loosely  on  the  shallow  water,  but  although  even  Sumner  feared  that 
the  attempt  would  result  in  terrible  disaster,  Sedgwick's  Division,  (to 
which  the  Thirty-fourth  belonged,)  marched  upon  the  swaying  bridge. 
The  weight  of  the  moving  column  steadied  it."  Colonel  Suiter,  of  the 
Thirty- fourth,  in  his  official  report  of  the  battle,  says :  "  In  advancing 
to  Fair  Oaks,  from  the  Tyler  House,  the  men  had,  some  of  the  way,  to 
march  through  water  and  mud  waist  deep."  And  Lieutenant-Colonel 
John  W.  Kimball,  commanding  the  Fifteenth  Massachusetts,  a  com 
panion  regiment  to  the  Thirty-fourth,  in  his  official  report,  says :  "  The 
water,  in  some  places  coming  up  to  the  waists  of  the  men."  And  one 
of  the  privates  of  the  Fifteenth  Massachusetts,  in  a  letter  written  home 
after  the  battle,  says :  "After  leaving  the  bridge,  we  waded  through  mud 
and  water,  nearly  waist  deep,  before  we  reached  hard  ground,  so  called." 
It  therefore  seems  pretty  well  established  that  the  Thirty-fourth  did 
some  wading,  in  its  advance  to  Fair  Oaks. 

As  soon  as  we  were  over  the  swollen  river  we  were  rushed  for 
ward.  It  appears  that  the  Third  and  Fourth  Corps  had  been  pretty 
roughly  handled  in  the  fight  thus  far,  losing  heavily  in  men  and  guns. 
But  at  the  moment  when  the  situation  was  the  most  desperate  Sedg 
wick's  Division  was  coming  to  the  front.  In  the  center  of  a  large,  open 
field  stood  the  historic  Adams  House,  facing  west.  To  the  left  of  this 
house  we  are  quickly  hustled,  the  Eighty-second  New  York,  of  our 
brigade  in  our  rear,  and  the  Fifteenth  Massachusetts  in  the  rear  of  that ; 
at  the  right  of  the  house  is  Kirby's  Battery,  and  troops  to  the  right  of 
that.  In  about  the  time  it  takes  to  tell  it,  the  Fifteenth  moves  to  our 
right,  completing  the  line  to  the  house ;  and  the  Eighty-second  to  the 
right  of  the  house,  supporting  the  battery.  To  our  left  was  the 
Twentieth  Massachusetts.  At  some  distance  in  front,  filling  the  woods, 
are  the  enemy,  flushed  with  unbroken  victory.  And  then  the  fun  began. 

A  regiment,  in  its  first  fight,  knows  not  the  sentiment  of  fear.  The 
dangers  are  all  present,  but  the  men  are  unconscious  of  them.  The 
psychic  life  of  a  man,  so  to  speak,  has  never  traversed  this  ordeal 
before.  Next  time  the  men  will  be  afraid ;  but  not  this  time.  And  so 
it  was.  There  was  no  interval  of  waiting.  The  firing  runs  along  the 
line,  at  the  enemy,  now  clearly  seen  advancing  out  of  the  woods.  At 
once,  the  men  began  to  drop ;  but  no  man  was  afraid,  though  his  turn 
might  come  next.  The  firing  is  as  hot  as  the  men  can  make  it.  We 
can  see  the  men  on  the  other  side  falling  too.  They  are  making  a  fierce 
attempt  to  get  possession  of  Kirby's  Battery.  They  surge  up  toward 
the  old  house,  but  are  literally  crowded  back  by  our  lines,  which  are 
steadily  pushing  forward.  We  stand  them  off  in  handsome  style. 
Every  officer  who  rides  a  horse,  and  all  the  officers  on  foot,  are  moving 
back  and  forth,  close  up  against  our  ranks,  urging  on  the  men,  who  need 
no  urging.  Gray-haired  Sumner  is  there,  and  Gorman,  roaring  louder 
than  ever.  Finally,  at  what  seems  the  supreme  moment,  the  order  is 
given  to  charge,  and  the  men  respond  with  the  greatest  alacrity.  The 
field  in  front  is  swept  clear ;  the  rebels  are  completely  routed.  It  is  a 


44  HISTORY   OF  THE   THIRTY-FOURTH    REGIMENT 

great  victory.     The  rebels  are  driven  back  across  the  old  Williamsburg 
road,  and  into  the  woods  beyond.     Night  closes  upon  the  scene. 

Speaking  of  the  charge  which  the  Thirty-fourth  made  on  that 
occasion,  General  Gorman,  in  his  official  report,  says : 

"Muskets  were  promptly  brought  down  to  a  charge,  and  the  men  threw 
themselves  at  double  quick  headlong  upon  the  enemy,  the  Thirty-fourth  New 
York  somewhat  in  advance  on  the  left,  and  in  perfect  line,  the  Eighty-second 
New  York  and  the  Fifteenth  Massachusetts  supporting  the  center.  The  enemy 
on  the  right  and  center  gave  way,  but  a  South  Carolina  regiment  before  the 
Thirty-fourth  New  York,  brought  their  bayonets  to  a  charge,  and  stood  until 
that  regiment  was  within  ten  or  fifteen  paces  of  them.  I  halted  the  Eighty- 
second  New  York  and  Fifteenth  Massachusetts  a  little  before  they  entered  the 
woods;  but  the  Thirty-fourth  New  York  plunged  into  the  thicket  some  fifty 
paces  before  I  could  halt  them.  A  further  advance  would  have  imperiled  their 
left  and  flank." 

This  Adams  House  and  the  sheds  around  it  were  soon  filled  with 
wounded  men,  and  the  surgeons  had  their  hands  full.  Colonel  Suiter, 
in  his  official  report,  says  that  the  Thirty-fourth  had  19  killed,  76 
wounded,  and  3  missing,  and  that  3  have  since  died.  But  in  the  lists 
which  we  give  below,  are  the  names  of  31  men  killed  in  this  battle.  We 
have  tried  to  make  the  list  as  complete  as  possible.  By  the  official 
reports,  published  since,  the  loss  of  the  Thirty-fourth  was  three  times 
that  of  any  other  regiment  in  the  brigade.  In  the  open  field  the  ground 
was  literally  covered  with  the  dead  and  dying.  We  slept  that  night 
among  them,  and  many  a  live  man  snuggled  up  to  a  dead  one,  and  didn't 
know  it  until  the  morning  broke. 

That  next  morning,  which  was  Sunday,  and  the  ist  of  June,  the 
battle  opened  over  on  our  left,  and  we  stood  in  line,  ready  to  go  in,  but 
now  the  other  division  of  our  corps,  Richardson's,  and  Hooker's  of 
the  Third  Corps,  which  had  not  been  engaged  heretofore,  went  to  the 
front,  and  had  their  innings.  The  battle  broke  out  early  in  the  morning ; 
but  it  appears  to  have  been  an  accident,  rather  than  the  result  of  any 
deliberate  purpose  on  either  side. 

While  waiting  in  line,  and  expecting  to  go  in,  we  wrote  these 
lines,  speaking  on  the  battle  of  the  night  before,  to  the  home  paper 
which,  after  forty-one  years,  we  have  no  disposition  to  modify  : 

' '  The  Thirty-fourth  has  won  for  itself  a  name  which  will  long  be  treasured .  Gen- 
eralsSumner,  Sedgwick  and  Gorman,  were  allon  the  field,  and  riding  up  before  our 
regiment  broke  out  in  such  exclamations  as,  'God  bless  the  gallant  Thirty-fourth,' 
'You  have  covered  yourselves  all  over  with  glory,  every  man  of  you,'  'Noble 
men,  I  hope  I  shall  die  praising  you.'  General  Sedgwick  said  that  he  had  been 
in  service  a  great  many  years,  but  had  never  in  his  life  seen  such  a  bayonet 
charge  as  we  made  across  that  open  field  and  into  those  woods.  Said  he,  'If 
money  will  buy  it  the  Thirty-fourth  shall  have  one  of  the  handsomest  banners 
in  the  whole  army,  and  upon  it  shall  be  inscribed,  in  letters  of  gold,  '  Fair  Oaks.'" 

Many  were  the  touching  scenes  witnessed  on  the  field  and  in  the 
hospitals  after  the  fight.  But  none  were  more  touching  than  the  one 
described  by  Captain  Clark  at  the  dedication  of  our  monument.  We 
refer  the  reader  to  the  account  of  the  dedication  for  the  incident. 

The  story  of  little  Jesse  Van  Hagen  is  almost  equally  touching. 
He  was  killed  by  a  shot  through  the  body.  His  younger  brother,  a 


TUCKER  S    SPRING,     FAIR    OAKS— IOO2 


SPRING    AT    KEEDYSVILLE,    MD. IQO2 


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HISTORY   OF   THE   THIRTY-FOURTH    REGIMENT 


mere  lad,  had  enlisted  in  Captain  Beverly's  company,  to  go  as  drum 
mer.  With  a  tender  regard  for  the  brother  William,  he  had  himself 
enlisted,  to  go  along  with,  and  care  for,  the  young  fellow.  The  younger 
man  was  subsequently  discharged  for  disability,  not  being  able  to  stand 
the  hardships  of  a  soldier's  life.  At  the  time  of  this  battle,  Jesse,  being 
naturally  of  a  delicate  constitution,  was  a  very  sick  man ;  but  he  would 
let  nothing  keep  him  from  his  post  of  duty  ;  so  he  crawled  from  his  tent, 
joined  his  company,  and  fought  till  he  fell,  as  brave  as  any  man  could 
be.  All  the  members  of  the  regiment  seemed  animated  by  the  same 
spirit.  Captain  Sponable  here  received  a  bullet,  which  he  carries  yet, 
and  which  has  never  since  let  him  enjoy  a  moment's  peace. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  killed  in  this  battle  of  Fair 
Oaks.  For  purposes  of  condensation  we  have  included  those  who 
died  of  wounds  immediately  after  the  battle  as  killed  in  the  battle.  For 
further  information  see  the  General  Roster. 


Brewer,  Milton — D. 

Buck,  John  R. — E. 

Ballard,  Stephen  Andrew — B. 

Carlton,  Henry — D. 

Clark,  Solomon  B. — I. 

Corbyn,  Jr.,  Daniel  S. — B. 

Dillon,  James — D. 

Gordon,  James  W. — G. 

Hill,  Sergt.  Major  Luther  A. — A. 

Jacobus,  Jesse — I. 

Kellogg,  Herbert — I. 

Kennedy,  Corp.  Matthew — B. 

Kirk,  Robert — G. 

Lackey,  Benjamin — E. 

Lamb,  Clinton — K. 

Laughlin,  Barney — G. 


Loomis,  John — B. 
Me  Laughlin,  Corp.  Robert — K. 
Middlebrook,  First  Sergt.  Allen  G. — K. 
Myers,  John — F. 
Norris,  Enoch — G. 
Peck,  William— K. 
Petrie,  Hay  den  J. — C. 
Sixby,  Nicholas — K. 
Taft,  Jesse — E. 
Terry,  Corp.  Albert — B. 
Terry,  Victor — B. 
Thrasher,  William  B.— C. 
Van  Hagan,  Jesse — K. 
White,  William— C. 
Williams,  Corp.  John — K. 
Total,  31. 


Following  the  battle  the  Thirty-fourth  occupied  a  camp  on  the 
front  line  in  which  it  almost  daily  received  fire  from  the  rebel  batteries 
posted  on  the  farther  side  of  a  large  wheat  field  on  Garnet's  Farm.  It 
was  seldom  that  anybody  was  hurt  by  this  fire,  however.  For  nearly 
a  month  we  were  on  arduous  picket  duty.  There  was  not  a  day  that  did 
not  have  its  exciting  incidents.  The  tension  was  very  acute.  There 
was  no  comity  between  the  forces  to  prevent  constant  snipping.  But 
there  was  one  spot  between  the  two  lines  which  both  sides  agreed  should 
be  neutral  and  friendly  ground.  This  was  Tucker's  Spring,  and^the 
picture  we  give  of  it  shows  how  it  looks  at  the  present  day.  It  is  a 
beautiful  spot  and  a  picnic  ground  for  parties  from  Richmond.  The 
spring  itself  is  a  noble  one,  of  the  purest  water,  which  we  believe  has 
been  sold  in  various  markets. 

The  keeper  of  the  National  Cemetery  at  Fair  Oaks  writes  that  he 
has  been  over  all  his  records  very  carefully,  but  cannot  find  a  single 
name  of  a  Thirty-fourth  comrade  buried  there.  All  our  dead  sleep  in 
unknown  graves.  Only  one  of  our  dead  could  be  found  in  the  Na 
tional  Cemetery  at  Fredericksburg.  He  was  a  Co.  D  man,  who  died  of 
disease  elsewhere.  See  Roster. 


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The  following  are  the  names  of  those  wounded  at  Fair  Oaks.  This 
list  has  grown  steadily  since  we  first  began  to  work  on  it,  and  it  is  very 
probable  that  it  is  not  yet  complete : 


Adle,  Henry — G. 

Benchley,  Willett  H.— G. 

Brundage,  Corp.  Azariah  C. — I. 

Cady,  Loren  E. — G. 

Carlton,  Stephen — D. 

Clark,  First  Lieut.  Irving  D. — B. 

Deland,  Lyman — E. 

Doud, John — C. 

Eastman,  Gilbert  L. — G. 

Egeler,  John — F. 

Egleston,  William — I. 

Ferrill,  Thomas — B. 

Fynn,  Martin — K. 

Franklin,  Henry — E. 

Gorey,  William— F. 

Guild,  Winfield  Scott— B. 

Haight,  Lewis — G. 

Hill,  Sergt.  William  L.— D. 

Hobby,  George — F. 

Hurley,  James  Peter — B. 

King,  Capt.  William  H.  —  I.     Twice 

wounded. 
Kirby,  Edwin — G. 
Lewis,  William  J. — F. 
Lamphere,  Warren — K. 
Loomis,  Merritt  B. — D. 
Loyd,  Simon — C. 
Marshall,  Syrall— E. 
Manning,  Owen — F. 
Mills,  William— C. 
Moore,  John — G. 


McMinez,  Ezra — E. 

Miller,  George — H. 

Orcutt,  Alvin — E. 

Oathout,  William — K. 

Pabodie,  George  A. — E. 

Perry,  Jacob  C. — B. 

Porter,  Joseph — C. 

Rathbone,  Orsemus — E. 

Reynor,  Joseph — D. 

Rosa,  Corp.  John  W. — K. 

Rogers,  Dennis — K. 

Scanlan,  Daniel — C. 

Scott,  First  Lieut.  John  O. — D. 

Shepherd,  Peter — C. 

Sisco,  Franklin — E. 

Smith,  Horace  H. — B. 

Sponable,  Capt.  Wells— B. 

Stewart,  John — B. 

Van  Etten,  John — B. 

Van  Court,  Daniel  P. — G. 

Van  Valkenburgh,  First  Sergt.  Wm.  S 

— F. 

Wait,  Francis— H. 
Warner,  William  N.— C. 
Weber,  Richard— I. 
Webster,  William  R.— D. 
White,  Thomas— F. 
Will,  Philip— F. 
Walton,  Second  Lieut.  William  S. — K. 

Total,   58. 


CHAPTER  VII 

THE  SEVEN  DAYS'  BATTLES" 

OX  the  26th  of  June  heavy  cannonading  off  to  the  north  indicated 
that  the  fierce  Seven  Days'  Battles  had  begun.  Mechanicsville, 
Games'  Mill  and  Golding's  Farm  quickly  following.  In  none 
of  these  engagements  did  the  Thirty-fourth  take  part.  But  the  air 
was  full  of  ominous  forebodings.  We  didn't  worry;  we  knew  our 
time  would  come.  Stonewall  Jackson  had  struck  the  extended  Union 
line  on  the  right  and  from  his  point  of  view  was  rolling  it  back  dis 
astrously.  From  the  Federal  point  of  view,  however,  that  was  not 
exactly  the  case.  The  troops  were  falling  back  in  accordance  with 
a  pre-arranged  plan  on  the  part  of  McClellan  to  shift  his  base  of 
operation  from  the  Pamunky  to  the  James  River.  On  Sunday,  June 
29,  it  came  our  time  to  move,  and  we  quickly  moved  to  Savage  Sta 
tion,  some  miles  to  the  south.  The  rebels,  however,  had  been  on  the 
alert,  and  began  to  press  us  from  the  moment  we  broke  camp  at  Fair 
Oaks.  Savage  Station,  ever  since  a  historic  place,  is  a  little  bit 
of  a  railroad  station,  and  nothing  but  a  station.  It  has  high  ground 
to  the  south  and  was  skirted  by  forests  then  as  now.  Very  soon  the 
rebels  made  their  appearance  in  the  edge  of  the  woods  and  began 
to  shell  us.  One  would  scarcely  believe  that  so  many  shells  could 
be  thrown  among  thousands  of  men,  and  so  few  hurt.  When  this  can 
nonading  had  been  kept  up  for  some  time,  and  had  become  tiresome, 
the  Irish  Brigade,  commanded  ordinarily  by  General  Thomas  Francis 
Meagher,  but  on  this  occasion  by  Colonel  Vernon,  was  ordered  to 
charge  and  clear  the  woods,  which  it  did  in  handsome  style.  In  fact, 
this  charge  was  one  of  the  most  dramatic  episodes  of  the  war.  This 
great  body  of  men  swept  over  the  plateau  with  such  huzzas  as  only  a 
body  of  Irishmen  can  give. 

From  this  time  on  we  found  ourselves  crowded  together  in  roads 
and  woods  with  marching  men,  cavalry,  artillery,  and  moving  trains, 
and  the  progress  was  slow  and  difficult. 

June  3Oth  occurred  what  is  commonly  known  in  the  annals  of  the 
Thirty-fourth  as  the  Battle  of  White  Oa'k  Swamp.  It  would  take  a 
moving  picture  to  properly  describe  it ;  for  it  extended  over  what  was 
known  as  White  Oak  Swamp,  Nelson's  Farm,  Glendale,  all  lying  along 
the  same  road.  The  lists  of  our  killed  and  wounded  are  mentioned  in 
the  official  reports  as  having  been  shot  at  White  Oak  Swamp;  but 
Colonel  Suiter,  who  was  in  command  of  the  brigade  a  portion  of  that 
day,  has  thought  best  to  call  it  the  Battle  of  Glendale,  and  it  is  so  men 
tioned  on  our  Antietam  monument.  The  day  was  insufferably  hot,  and 
the  roads  were  unspeakably  dusty.  We  were  thrown  back  and  forth 
from  one  point  to  another  as  danger  threatened,  and  it  took  almost 
supreme  endurance  to  stand  it.  But  the  men  knew  that  sooner  or  later 
we  would  have  to  fight,  and  no  one  wanted  to  be  absent  when  the  time 


THE  SEVEN  DAYS'  BATTLES  49 

came.  Along  in  the  afternoon  came  orders  from  Suniner  himself  for 
the  men  to  throw  off  everything  but  guns  and  cartridge  boxes,  and  the 
orders  were  quickly  obeyed.  A  soldier  hates  to  throw  away  his  knap 
sack.  It  contains  everything  he  cherishes ;  letters  from  home,  pictures 
of  loved  ones,  keepsakes  that  he  has  treasured  all  the  way,  besides  all 
that  he  has  in  the  way  of  extra  clothing,  needles  and  thread,  and  all  the 
rest.  It  was  evident  that  all  the  other  regiments  had  been  compelled  to 
do  the  same;  for  the  hot  ground  was  everywhere  littered  with  them. 
At  one  point  we  noticed  where  a  brass  band  had  thrown  away  all  its 
instruments  in  the  long  run,  and  these  had  subsequently  been  run  over 
by  heavy  artillery.  The  spectacle  was  not  a  pleasant  one.  Finally, 
near  the  close  of  the  day,  we  brought  up  in  front  of  a  woods,  inside  of 
which  terrific  firing  was  going  on ;  and  we  knew  that  the  great  Day  of 
the  Lord  had  come. 

In  reply  to  our  request  to  give  us  some  of  his  recollections  con 
cerning  this  battle,  Colonel  Suiter  very  kindly  sent  the  writer  a  full 
account,  from  which  we  make  a  number  of  extracts : 

"General  Richardson,  commander  of  the  first  division  of  our  corps,  became 
engaged  in  our  rear,  and  the  Thirty-fourth  was  ordered  to  go  to  his  support  at 
a  double  quick.  We  executed  the  order  and  relieved  Richardson,  when  we 
received  an  order  to  return  at  a  double  quick  to  support  General  Sedgwick, 
who  had  become  engaged  at  the  Nelson  Farm.  On  reaching  Sedgwick,  we  were 
sent  to  the  support  of  General  Kearny,  at  Glendale.  In  this  battle  we  lost  very 
heavily  in  a  very  short  space  of  time.  Night  caught  us  fighting.  At  about 
nine  o'clock  in  the  evening  the  fighting  ceased  on  both  sides  without  an  order. 
We  picked  up  our  wounded,  and  carried  them  to  a  safe  place,  and  all  they  required 
was  water.  I  sent  Adjutant  Thompson  to  find  some  water;  and  during  his 
absence  it  appeared  that  a  thousand  at  least,  of  the  enemy,  black  and  white, 
appeared  upon  the  field  in  front,  with  torchlights,  picking  up  their  wounded. 
My  adjutant  returned,  after  a  long  search,  with  water,  which  I  gave  to  the 
wounded,  and  relieved  their  wants.  I  immediately  sent  the  adjutant  back  to 
ask  General  Sumner  or  Sedgwick  to  send  me  supports.  I  then  went  to  the  front 
and  laid  down  to  hear,  if  possible,  what  those  torchlight  fellows  had  to  say. 
After  some  time  General  Kearny,  who  had  lost  an  arm  in  the  Mexican  war. 
arrived.  After  the  compliments  of  the  night,  the  general  said:  'Colonel,  those 
fellows  may,  under  the  pretext  of  humanity,  form  a  line  of  battle  across  your 
front;  and  if  they  come  so  near  that  you  think  they  are  going  to  attack,  fire  one 
volley,  and  then  charge.'  My  reply  was:  ' General,  I  think  I  shall  fire  the  volley 
and  perhaps  move  them  on;  but  when  I  charge  it  will  be  by  the  rear  rank.' 
After  a  long  wait  Adjutant  Thompson  made  his  appearance  with  an  order  that 
I  should  as  quietly  and  expeditiously  as  possible,  withdraw  my  regiment.  This 
was  done;  and  when  I  got  out  it  was  daylight,  and  the  entire  army  was  on  the 
move  for  Malvern  Hill." 

We  can  only  add  to  what  Colonel  Suiter  has  so  graphically 
described  by  saying  that  the  scene  throughout  the  early  part  of  the 
night,  when  we  lay  in  the  edge  of  the  woods,  with  the  open  field  in  our 
front,  was  weird  and  ghastly  in  the  extreme.  Men  with  flaming 
torches  were  wandering  about  this  open  field,  calling,  calling,  to  find 
their  wounded  comrades,  hoping  to  render  them  some  aid.  Sometimes 
we  could  hear  a  feeble  response  as  the  names  were  called  out,  saying : 
"  Here  I  am,  boys,"  but  more  frequently  there  was  no  response.  Our 
losses  in  this  battle  were  not  numerically  great ;  but  it  is  a  wonder  that 


50  HISTORY    OF   THE   THIRTY-FOURTH   REGIMENT 

half  the  regiment  wasn't  killed  by  the  preliminary 
operations.  Our  lists  show  only  6  men  killed 
and  ii  wounded.  Late  in  the  night  word  was 
passed  along  the  line  to  fall  back,  but  to  make 
no  noise.  Lieutenant  Northup  of  Company  K, 
who  had  been  severely  wounded,  was  put  on  a 
stretcher,  and  four  of  his  men  carried  the  suffer 
ing  officer  along  with  the  regiment  all  the  way 
to  Malvern  Hill  and  safety.  In  all  this  step- 
by-step  movement,  this  all-day  fighting  and  all- 
night  running,  our  forces  were  uniformly  vic 
torious.  And  it  is  a  wonder  that  General  McClel- 
lan  did  not  turn  and  strike  at  his  antagonist  on 

LIEUTENANT  COLONEL  JOHN    some  of  these  occasions.     Our  generals  hated  to 
BEVERLY     1862  give  Up  the  advantages  they  had  won,  and  resume 

the  retreat,  but  General  McClellan  didn't  seem  to 
De  like-minded.     McClellan  was  a  great  man  on  a  retreat. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  the  killed  in  this  engagement.  So 
many  had  been  prostrated  by  the  heat  and  dust  and  heavy  marching 
preceding  the  battle  that  the  number  engaged  was  numerically  small : 

Barnes,  Loren — I.  Nichols,  John  W. — K. 

Cassily,  Daniel— A.  Sixby,  John  S.— K. 
Gordon,  Corp.  Daniel  R. — E. 
Kibbie,  Eugene — K.  Total,  6. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  the  wounded : 

Burns,  First  Sergt.  William — K.  Mooers,  Wolford — D. 

Campbell,  Isaac  G. — G.  Northup,  Lieut.  Emerson  S. — K. 

Carroll,  Edward — F.  O wins,  John — B.     Also  captured. 

Degnan,  Michael — B.  Petrie,  Chauncy — B. 

Greenly,  Hiram  B. — K.  Walton,  Lieut.  William  S. — K. 

Le  Page,  Lewis — D.  Total,   n. 

Tuesday,  July  1st,  finds  us  at  Malvern  Hill.  This  ground  should 
be  an  ideal  spot  for  a  general  fighting  on  the  defensive.  It  is  high 
ground,  free  and  clear  on  every  side.  Once  an  army  is  in  possession  of 
this  ground,  it  can  hardly  be  surprised ;  for  any  enemy  approaching 
must  emerge  from  the  woods  at  a  sufficient  distance  to  make  a  good 
target  for  cannon  and  rifle.  General  McClellan  found  it  so,  and  the 
approaching  enemy  found  it  so.  Also  on  this  occasion  the  Union  army 
was  under  protection  of  gunboats  on  the  James  River,  and  they  did 
royal  service.  We  had  no  sooner  got  well  settled  on  this  splendid 
ground,  than  the  enemy  with  his  usual  alertness  found  us,  and  with 
great  daring  made  the  assault.  The  Thirty-fourth  was  under  hot  fire 
here  a  portion  of  the  time,  but  didn't  suffer  severely.  But  here  Major 
Charles  L.  Brown  of  the  regiment,  and  Sergeant  George  Morse,  the 
sharpshooter,  to  whom  we  referred  in  a  previous  chapter,  met  their 
death.  It  appears  that  Morse,  though  he  was  handy  with  a  rifle,  could 
not  stand  off  a  whole  army,  and  the  bullets  found  him,  to  his  mortal 


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52  HISTORY   OF  THE   THIRTY-FOURTH    REGIMENT 

hurt.*  No  sooner  had  darkness  fallen,  than  the  rearward  movement 
began  again. 

The  death  of  Major  Brown  was  a  most  dramatic  incident  of  this 
Malvern  Hill  battle.  We  give  the  story  as  told  by  an  eye  witness  : 

"  One  circumstance  frequently  comes  hack  to  me  over  those  forty  years. 
Did  you  witness  the  wounding  of  Major  Brown  at  Malvern  Hill?  I  think  you 
may  not  have  seen  the  actual  thing  itself.  I  stood  alongside  of  him.  He  lay 
upon  his  right  side,  leaning  on  his  elbow,  the  bridle  of  his  horse  in  his  left  hand, 
as  it  lay  upon  his  hip.  His  ankles  were  crossed.  The  shell  came  bounding 
over  the  ground,  as  a  ball  might  do.  It  bounded  over  the  stacked  arms, 
falling  directly  on  his  ankles,  and  going  on  its  way.  He  fell  over  on  his  back, 
but  raised  himself  in  a  sitting  position,  took  his  leg  in  his  hands,  and  lifted  it  up, 
and  his  foot  hung  by  the  piece  of  boot-leg,  not  entirely  cut  off.  Both  feet  were 
the  same. 

"I  have  seen  the  expression  on  his  pale  face  hundreds  of  times,  in  memory, 
since  he  lifted  that  foot  and  saw  his  condition.  He  did  a  very  careless  thing. 
We  had  a  right  to  be  brave,  but  not  to  thus  show  our  indifference,  especially 
under  shell  fire.  At  least  one  comrade  remained  with  the  Major,  as  we  resumed 
our  retreat,  and  he  died  in  Confederate  hands." 

And  now  the  rains,  which  had  held  off  for  a  long  time,  began  to 
fall ;  and  so  it  happened  that  the  march  from  Malvern  Hill  to  Harrison's 
Landing  on  the  James  was  not  much  of  a  show  in  the  way  of  a  nicely 
executed  military  movement.  It  wasn't  a  rout,  but  it  looked  like  it. 
The  road  was  narrow,  and  under  the  falling  rains  it  was  deep;  and 
what  with  the  passage  of  countless  teams  hauling  the  army  wagons,  the 
passage  of  the  artillery  and  the  cavalry,  and  90,000  men  on  foot,  it  could 
hardly  be  expected  that  the  road  would  be  in  prime  condition.  The 
quartermaster-general  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  says  that  "  if  the 
enemy  had  known  at  this  time  the  predicament  in  which  the  Army  of 
the  Potomac  found  itself,  a  very  small  body  of  them  could  have  inflicted 
a  deal  of  mischief."  Army  wagons,  artillery,  and  cavalry  were  in 
many  places  crowded  together  in  inextricable  confusion.  There  was  a 
good  deal  of  what  you  might  call  profanity  among  various  kinds  of 

*It  appears  that  some  fellow,  who  must  have  been  a  fraud,  was  admitted  to  the  Soldier's 
Hpme,  at  Bath,  N.  Y.,  September  23,  1801,  giving  as  his  name  and  Accord,  "George  Moss,  alias 
Michael  Governor,  formerly  of  Company  K,  Thirty-fourth  Regiment."  He  died  there  November 
16,  1897.  We  are  informed  that  he  was  known  in  the  Home  as  George  Morse.  Hearing  of  this 
at  the  time  of  the  dedication,  of  course  an  honest  doubt  was  raised  as  to  his  identity  with  our 
old  comrade,  whom  we  believed  to  have  died  of  a  wound  received  at  Malvern  Hill,  July  i,  1862; 
and  so  we  have  had  to  do  some  investigating.  There  seems  to  be  no  doubt  that  the  man  who  died 
at  Bath  was  a  fraud,  who  traded  on  the  names  of  two  most  deserving  comrades.  We  appealed  to 
Quartermaster  Easterbrook,  who  in  turn  appealed  to  an  old  friend  of  his,  James  H.  Wild,  who  was  a 
member  of  the  Walton,  (Adirondack),  Club,  and  knew  Morse  well.  Wild  replied  to  Easterbrook 's 
inquiry,  under  date  of  November  28,  1902,  as  follows: 

"FRIEND  EASTERBROOK:  You  wished  to  know  if  I  was  acquainted  with  George  Morse.  He 
was  one  of  the  guides  of  the  Walton  Club,  and  George  Dawson,  and  General  Francis  E.  Spinner 
employed  him  as  their  guide,  until  Morse  went  to  tne  war.  He  was  wounded  at  Malvern  Hill, 
Va.,  July  i,  1862,  and  sent  to  the  hospital  in  Washington,  and  died  there.  The  club  raised  $500, 
and  gave  it  to  his  widow;  and  tne  secretary  (Mr.  Schoneld)  af  the  club,  got  up  a  subscription  for  a 
monument,  and  went  to  Washington  to  nave  it  put  up  at  his  grave.  I  do  not  know  what  cemetery 
it  was.  The  members  of  the  club  understood  it  was  in  Washington,  as  I  have  always  told  my 
friends  he  was  buried  there.  Tne  club  (Walton)  had  a  membership  of  seventy-five,  and  I  cannot 
name  any  member  that  is  living.  I  took  two  friends  from  New  York  with  me  in  '65,  to  the  camp 
on  the  Third  Fulton  Lake,  for  a  two- weeks'  trip.  That  was  the  last  time  I  took  a  trip  to  the  Wild 
Camp.  I  remain  yours,  etc.,  JAMES  H.  WILD." 

As  for  Comrade  Michael  Governor,  there  is  really  no  such  man.  The  Adjutant-General 
spelled  the  name  that  way  once;  but  it  was  a  mistake.  The  true  name  is  Michael  McGovern,  whom 
we  all  remember,  and  who  is  still  living  in  Little  Falls,  and  prepared  to  defend  his  title  against  all 
comers.  Mike,  shake. 


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troops  as  to  which  had  the  right  of  way.  In  many  cases,  wagons  had 
to  be  abandoned,  and  there  was  a  good  deal  of  plundering  on  the  part 
of  the  soldiers. 

However,  the  most  of  the  army  eventually  reached  Harrison's 
Landing.  The  army  by  this  time  had  lost  all  pretense  of  being  an  organ 
ized  body.  It  was  little  better  in  appearance  than  a  mob.  No  enemy 
could  have  more  completely  demoralized  it ;  there  were  scarcely  a  dozen 
men  of  any  one  regiment  together.  But  the  flag  of  the  Thirty-fourth, 
carried  by  Charley  Barton,  was  stuck  up  in  one  place,  with  three  men 
attending  it,  and  along  in  the  afternoon  the  men  began  to  find  it.  All 
night  long  they  were  coming  in,  and  the  wagons  also,  bearing  the  sick 
and  the  wounded,  began  to  arrive.  These  poor  fellows  had  had  a  hard 
time.  Many  of  them  had  to  be  carried  in  the  rude  lumber  wagons,  and 
had  suffered  from  hunger,  and  thirst,  and  weariness,  beyond  all 
description. 

By  the  lists  which  we  give  elsewhere  it  will  be  seen  that  there  were 
quite  a  good  many  deaths  in  the  regiment  shortly  after  the  arrival  at 
Harrison's  Landing.  These  were  mostly  the  men  who  had  been  sick  at 
the  time  of  starting.  The  ride  really  killed  them. 

We  shall  not  soon  forget  the  case  of  David  W.  Dye,  of  Company  K. 
Dye  had  been  sick  almost  constantly  from  the  time  the  regiment  went 
south.  The  doctors  could  not  tell  what  was  the  matter  with  him.  We 
have  always  thought  it  was  a  case  of  homesickness.  The  poor  fellow 
pined,  and  pined,  and  longed  for  home.  Occasionally  he  would  rally 
a  little,  and  then  be  down  again.  He  had  come  from  Argusville, 
Schoharie  County,  and  was  a  splendid  man  in  every  way.  Could  he 
have  gone  home  for  a  few  days,  we  think  he  would  have  recovered  his 
health,  and  afterward  been  all  right.  On  the  afternoon  of  the  day  of 
which  we  speak,  Dye  was  taken  out  of  one  of  the  heavy  wagons  a  mere 
skeleton.  The  boys,  having  made  him  comfortable,  proceeded  to  make  a 
fire  and  some  tea  ;  and  while  they  were  about  this  the  feeble  voice  of  Dye 
was  heard,  saying :  "  Boys,  won't  you  please  give  me  a  little  tea  ?  "  Of 
course,  they  responded,  and  everything  was  done  that  was  possible  10 
make  him  comfortable.  Then  he  gave  one  of  the  comrades  a  ring  he 
had  on  his  finger,  and  told  him  to  please  see  that  it  was  sent  to  his  wife 
at  home,  and  to  say  to  the  wife  that  he  felt  his  time  had  come,  for  he 
was  sure  he  was  going  to  die.  That  night  he  was  put  on  the  hospital 
boat  Euterpe,  along  with  men  either  sick  or  wounded,  and  taken  down 
the  river.  Lieutenant  Walton,  who  had  been  wounded  at  White 
Oak  Swamp,  and  left  behind  at  Malvern  Hill,  and  was  afterward  found 
by  the  rebels  as  they  advanced,  and  taken  to  Richmond  and  to  Libby 
Prison,  was  very  soon  exchanged,  and  sent  down  the  river  to  Fortress 
Monroe,  and  put  on  board  of  this  same  boat ;  and  afterward  had  this  to 
say  of  poor  Dye:  "On  being  taken  on  board  the  hospital  boat  Euterpe, 
at  Fortress  Monroe,  we  found  many  sick  who  were  to  be  removed  to 
other  cities.  A  more  wretched,  pitiful  looking  lot  of  beings  we  have 
seldom  seen.  Members  of  our  regiment,  whom  we  left  in  the  full  en 
joyment  of  health,  stout  and  robust,  we  found  hovering  on  the  verge  of 


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HISTORY   OF   THE  THIRTY-FOURTH    REGIMENT 


the  grave,  looking  far  worse  than  death,  with  their  sunken  ghastly  eyes, 
hollow  cheeks  and  fleshless  limbs.  Of  all  victims,  however,  none  "de 
serve  a  eulogy  more  than  David  W.  Dye,  who  died  on  the  Euterpe  just 
before  its  departure  for  New  York.  Quiet,  obliging  and  kind-hearted, 
he  was  prompt  as  a  soldier,  a  friend  and  a  man.  Heaven  is  richer  for 
his  loss."  Much  the  same  might  be  said  of  very  many  other  members 
of  the  regiment  who  died  at  this  time,  and  after  this  terrible  Seven 


Days'  fight.  In  fact, 
with  every  one  of  these 
in  the  army.  It  is  a  little 
to  die  under  such  circum- 


there  is  a  little  story  to  go 
men  who  died  of  sickness 
different   to  be   sick,   and 
stances,    from   what   it   is 
to     die     at     home,     sur 
rounded  by  your  friends. 
The     time     at    Har 
rison's   Landing   was    de 
voted  to  restoring  the  or 
ganization    of    the    army, 
getting  the  menreclothed, 
paid  off,  and  generally  recruited 
up.     There  had  been  immense 
destruction    of    stores    all    the 
way  along.    At  Savage  Station, 
on   the   29th   of  June,   a  great 
many  cars  loaded  with  ammu 
nition,  food,  clothing,  etc.,  were 
destroyed  to  prevent  their  fall 
ing    into    the     hands     of    the 
enemy.      Portions    of    our   bri 
gade    were    detailed    for    this 
work.     Many  wounded,  and  in 
temporary  hospitals,  were  also 
left  behind  with  their  surgeons. 
There     were     2,500    sick     arid 
wounded  left  behind  at  this  one 
nlace.    These,  of  course,  all  fell 
into  the  hands  of  the  enemy. 

July  2  ist  the  men  were 
paid  off.  On  the  22cl  there  was 
a  grand  review.  On  Thursday 
night,  July  3ist,  we  were  all 
suddenly  aroused  by  a  tre 
mendous  cannonading  down  at  the  river.  In  a  few  moments  we 
were  all  under  arms,  thinking  we  had  been  attacked,  and  it  was  some 
time  before  the  true  cause  of  the  affair  was  discovered.  It  appears  that 
the  rebels  had  opened  fire  on  our  camp  and  on  the  vessels  in  the  river 
from  the  opposite  shore.  Things  were  pretty  lively  for  a  while  ;  but 
when  our  gunboats  in  the  river  opened  fire  on  them  at  close  range,  the 
rebel  fire  was  quickly  silenced. 


IQOO CAPTAIN    JOHN 


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55 


The  only  important  movement  made  at  this  time  was  a  reconnais 
sance  in  force  back  as  far  as  Malvern  Hill  and  White  Oak  Swamp. 
The  movement  began  Monday,  August  4.  The  Thirty-fourth  was  very 
much  interested  in  revisiting  the  battlefield  of  June  30.  Trees  cut 
down  by  bullets,  and  general  desolation  everywhere,  attested  the 


Perhaps  the  most  painful 
hundreds  of  half -buried 
Union  army.  Of  course, 
where  they  fell,  and  the 
at  the  hands  of  theenemv. 


severity   of   that   conflict, 
thing  to  be  seen  was  the 
dead,   particularly   of  the 
our    men    had    been    left 
only  burial  they  got  was 
As'  a    general    thing,    an 
enemy    in    warfare    does 
not  make  a  good  under 
taker,  and  the  rebs  were 
no  exception  in  this  case. 
A  lot  of  our  men  would 
be  piled  together,   and  a 
little  dirt  thrown  over  them,  leav 
ing  their  heads   and  feet  stick 
ing  out.    At  Malvern  Hill  we  had 
an  opportunity  of  seeing  the  fear 
ful    ordeal    through    which    the 
fields    and    woods    had    passed 
during    the    terrible    conflict   of 
July  ist. 

Unexploded  shells,  which 
had  been  fired  by  our  gunboats, 
were  also  found,  some  of  them 
two  feet  long  and  eight  inches 
in  diameter.  It  was  extremely 
disagreeale  business  marching 
over  some  portions  of  this  field, 
on  account  of  the  horrid  odor 
from  the  decaying  bodies.  The 
Richmond  Dispatch  was  the 
author  of  a  statement,  made  at 
this  time,  that  a  man  who  dies 
for  his  country  is  entitled  to  a 
grave  beneath  her  soil ;  but  not 
all  southern  people,  particularly 

those   in  the  southern  army,   concurred   in   this  view.     On  the   fol 
lowing    Thursday    morning    we    returned    to    Harrison's    Landing. 

Our  next  move  was  to  be  another  of  those  masterly  retreats  for 
which  our  commanding  general  was  so  famous.  Not  in  many  a  day, 
not  until  many  a  mile  has  been  marched,  many  a  battle  fought,  and 
many  a  sacred  life  surrendered,  shall  we  again  be  near  enough  to  behold 
the  spires  of  Richmond,  as  we  did  at  Fair  Oaks. 


I  86  I CAPTAIN    EMERSON     S.    NORTHUP IQO2 


CHAPTER    VIII 

LEAVING  THE  PENINSULA.     HARRISON'S  LANDING  TO  ANTIETAM 

ON  Saturday  morning,  August  16,  there  was  great  commotion  in 
camp,  and  great  preparations  for  an  important  move.  It 
turned  out  to  be  a  move  down  the  peninsula,  instead  of  up. 
Two  days  later  we  crossed  the  Chickahominy  on  a  pontoon  bridge. 
Why  could  not  the  army  have  had  such  a  bridge  at  Edward's  Ferry, 
and  Ball's  Bluff,  the  preceding  October,  when  that  disastrous  move 
was  made  across  the  Potomac?  On  Tuesday,  near  night,  we  passed 
through  the  college  town  of  Williamsburg,  the  scene  of  that  terrible 
battle  just  three  months  before.  It  was  now  a  scene  of  desolation. 
Weeds  and  vines  were  rapidly  obscuring  the  streets.  If  our  march 
up  the  peninsula  had  been  made  unpleasant  by  the  constant  rains,  we 
now  had  a  taste  of  something  quite  different.  No  rain  had  fallen  for 
some  time,  and  the  great  army,  marching  over  the  narrow  roads,  made 
the  dust  unspeakably  annoying.  It  was  so  deep  it  rolled  over  into 
the  tops  of  the  men's  army  shoes.  The  subtle  irritant  penetrated 
everywhere,  even  through  the  woolen  clothing.  The  men  were  badly 
chafed,  and  suffered  intensely  under  the  burning  sun,  and  under  their 
heavy  loads.  Oh,  now  for  one  of  those  drenching  showers,  such  as 
we  had  when  we  were  going  up  the  peninsula  over  at  New  Kent  Court 
House,  and  Eltham  Farm,  and  Tyler  House.  But  the  skies  are  brazen, 
and  blistering  heat  is  all  they  have  to  give  us. 

Who  are  these  men  on  horseback,  riding  by  ?  They  all  have  hand 
kerchiefs  tied  over  their  faces.  Horses  and  men  are  all  of  a  color.  It 
is  the  ghastly  pallor  of  the  dead.  Indeed  this  passing  cavalcade  might 
be  the  sheeted  dead,  riding  to  doomsday  and  to  judgment.  No  word 
comes  from  any  one  to  indicate  their  business.  The  infantry  falls  back- 
in  equal  silence  to  make  a  passage  for  them.  Finally  they  have  dis 
appeared,  to  the  infinite  relief  of  all,  for  their  appearance  is  a  ghostly 
omen,  and  no  one  likes  it.  It  is  only  a  detachment  of  the  Union  cavalry ; 
but  loaded  with  dust.  The  horses  are  barely  able  to  keep  their  feet ;  and 
the  men  are  barely  able  to  keep  their  saddles.  It  is  bad  enough  march 
ing  on  foot  at  such  a  time ;  it  is  worse,  riding  in  the  cavalry.  Every 
horse  throws  up  a  little  cloud  of  dust,  and  the  suffering  is  something 
awful.  At  such  a  time  you  can  discern  a  body  of  horsemen  passing 
over  the  country,  though  they  be  out  of  sight,  and  miles  away,  by  the 
column  of  dust. 

In  due  course  we  are  back  again  at  Yorktown.  The  army  has  been 
marching  in  three  great  parallel  columns,  and  there  has  been  no  stop. 
Leaving  Yorktown  behind  us,  we  are  soon  at  Big  Bethel.  But  instead 
of  turning  off  to  Hampton  as  we  expected,  we  kept  straight  on  to  New 
port  News.  In  a  letter  written  on  the  evening  of  that  day  we  said : 
"Just  as  we  had  halted  for  a  short  rest,  the  clouds  grew  black  and 
dense;  the  artillery  of  heaven  began  to  boom;  and  the  grateful  men 


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57 


were  drenched  with  the  falling  rain.     With  what  delight  did  we  hail 
this  harbinger  of  mercy." 

Three  miles  further  on  we  halt  and  camp.     We  are  at  Newport 
News,  the  junction  of  the  James  and  Elizabeth  rivers.     The  sight  of 
the  water  was  most  refreshing.     As  soon  as  the  men  broke  ranks,  they 
stripped,  and  plunged  into  the  sea.     Scores  of  the  men  were  so  badly 
chafed  their  legs  were  red  with  blood.     A  great  many  had  fallen  out 
on  the  march,  as  is  always  the  case 
at   such   a  time.     They  could   not 
stand  the  pace,  with  the  heat  and 
dust;  but  now  they  had  a  chance 
to  catch  up,  and  we  all  had  a  good 
rest.      One    of   the    great   luxuries 
at  this  time  were  the  oysters.     The 
river  beds  abounded  with  them,  and 
we  helped  ourselves  to  all  we  could 
eat.     Men  would  wade  out  to  deep 
water,   feel  the  oysters   with  their 
toes,  then  dive. 

Wre     remained     at      Newport 
News  until  August  25,  when,  aiong 
with   as   many  other  troops   as   the 
good   ship   Mississippi  could  carry, 
we  embarked  for  Alex 
andria.    Three  days  later 
we  were  at  that  ancient 
port,  and  went  into  camp 
out    on    the    Centerville 
road.     \Ve  remained  in 
camp  on  Centerville  road 
until  four  o'clock  of  the 
following  afternoon, 
when    off    we    started; 
marching  back   through 
Alexandria,  up  the  Po 
tomac,  past  Washington, 
halting  about  12  o'clock 
in  the  night.     The  next 
morning   we  pushed   on 

to  Chain  Bridge.  The  modern  trestle  bridge  does  not  look  much  like 
the  old  Chain  Bridge  of  the  war  time.  About  five  o'clock  in  the  after 
noon  we  started  off  again  ;  this  time  back  toward  Alexandria ;  but  when 
we  arrived  opposite  Washington  our  course  was  changed,  and  we 
pushed  on  toward  Centerville;  in  which  direction  heavy  cannonading 
had  been  heard  throughout  the  entire  day.  After  marching  all  night, 
and  until  noon  of  the  next  day.  we  arrived  at  Centerville,  to  which  point 
Pope's  army  had  fallen  back  after  the  battle  of  the  previous  day.  All 
remained  quiet  throughout  the  day,  which  was  Sunday,  and  the  next 


CAPTAIN    DAVIS    J.    RICH CIVILIAN 


5&  HISTORY   OF  THE   THIRTY-FOURTH    REGIMENT 

morning  our  division  passed  out  on  a  reconnaissance,  but  returned, 
without  having  seen  anything  to  indicate  the  appearance  of  the  enemy 
on  our  right  flank.  Already  the  army,  comprising  now  both  the  army 
of  Pope  and  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  began  to  fall  back  toward  Fair 
fax,  and  at  twelve  o'clock  of  the  same  night  our  corps  took  up  the  rear. 
Early  the  next  morning  we  were  at  Fairfax  Court  House. 

But  we  wish  here  to  speak  of  an  incident  that  occurred  during  that 
hard  night  march.  What  with  all  the  hard  marching  we  had  been  doing 
since  we  arrived  from  the  Peninsula,  we  were  probably  the  tiredest  lot 
of  men  that  ever  lived.  The  incident  referred  to  occurred  in  the  middle 
of  the  night.  We  had  halted  for  a  moment.  Immediately  every  man 
sank  down  in  his  tracks,  utterly  beat  out,  and  went  to  sleep.  Officers- 
and  men  alike  yielded  to  the  pleading  voice  of  tired  nature  for  a  little 
rest.  In  the  roadway  itself,  and  all  along  its  sides,  the  ground  was 
covered  with  the  sleeping  men.  It  was  in  a  dense  woods,  and  the 
moonlight,  filtering  through  the  trees,  made  the  place  look  very  beauti 
ful,  and  very  ghostly.  How  long  we  had  been  sleeping  it  is  impossible 
to  state.  But  suddenly,  as  if  roused  by  some  supernatural  power,  every 
man  sprang  to  his  feet,  every  man  excitedly  exclaiming  "  What  is  it?  " 
But  nobody  could  tell,  for  nobody  knew.  We  all  had  some  idea  that  we 
had  suddenly  been  charged  upon  by  the  enemy's  cavalry ;  but  there  was 
no  enemy  in  sight.  Even  after  regaining  their  feet,  the  men  were  half 
asleep  and  utterly  bewildered.  The  writer  had  some  idea,  as  he  opened 
his  eyes,  of  seeing  a  dash  of  men  in  gray  on  horseback.  But  one  thing 
is  certain,  no  men  on  horseback  could  ever  have  ridden  along  that  road 
without  trampling  on  a  thousand  sleeping  men.  But  nobody  had  been 
hurt ;  and  to  this  day  the  mystery  of  that  sudden  awakening  has  never 
been  cleared  up.  The  historian  of  the  Fifteenth  Massachusetts  has- 
this  to  say  of  that  event,  quoting  from  Surgeon  Haven,  of  the  regiment : 
"Surgeon  Haven  calls  it  a  panic,  and  says  it  occurred  about  two  o'clock  in  the 
morning.  We  were  going  on  a  road  through  a  dense  woods,  when  an  over 
turned  wagon,  some  unruly  mule  or  something  of  the  sort,  started  a  panic,  and 
some  of  our  cavalry  and  other  mounted  men  rushed  through  our  ranks.  I  was 
leading  my  horse  at  the  time,  but  held  on  to  her,  and  we  were  both  driven 
violently  into  the  wood  and  brush,  where  the  cavalry  and  some  of  the  infantry 
on  the  other  side  of  the  road,  poured  a  volley  into  us.  The  whole  affair  hardly 
lasted  five  minutes,  but  in  that  time  perhaps  between  twenty  and  thirty  were 
killed  or  wounded." 

Surgeon  Haven  is  careful  to  add  that  none  of  the  Fifteenth  were 
among  the  killed  or  wounded ;  and  we  doubt  very  much  if  anybody  saw 
any  killed  or  wounded.  The  above  is  the  only  explanation  we  have  ever 
seen  of  the  occurrence,  and  this  is  an  explanation  that  don't  explain. 
Why  not  call  it  "The  Midnight  Attack  of  the  Phantom  Cavalry?" 

But  there  is  now  no  more  halting  or  resting.  The  great  campaign 
of  Lee's  invasion  of  Maryland,  and  which  was  to  end  at  Antietam,  had 
actually  begun.  Onward  we  press  through  the  night.  Tired  nature 
shall  have  no  time  for  rest.  Seventeen  miles  of  hard  tramping  bring 
us  to  Chain  Bridge,  to  Tenallytown,  and  to  Rockville,  Md.,  where  we 
hear  that  Lee  has  crossed  the  Potomac  at  Muddy  Branch,  with  forty 
thousand  men. 


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60  HISTORY   OF   THE   THIRTY-FOURTH   REGIMENT 

This  brings  us  to  September  7th.  As  nobody  knew  exactly  where 
the  rebels  were,  we  really  expected  a  big  fight  right  here,  and  were  in 
line  awaiting  it.  General  Gorman  rides  along  the  line,  and  tells  his  men 
they  have  got  to  fight ;  but  the  real  hard  fight  is  ten  days  off.  At 
Tenallytown  the  men  received  their  knapsacks,  which  had  been  shipped 
from  Harrison's  Landing.  Major  Beverly,  who  had  been  absent  for 
seme  time,  was  now  with  the  regiment  again,  and  in  command,  for 
Colonel  Suiter  was  on  the  sick  list.  This  heavy  marching,  continued 
for  so  many  days,  was  about  as  bad  as  a  battle,  judging  by  the  way  it 
worsted  the  men.  Forward  we  go,  up  through  Maryland ;  on  the  loth 
near  Clarksburg;  on  the  nth  to  Hyattstown.  Here  a  small  body  of 
rebel  cavalry  was  dispersed  by  Kirby's  Battery.  On  the  I2th  we  were 
at  Urbana,  and  on  the  I3th  at  Frederick  City;  thence  to  South  Moun 
tain  where  we  came  in  contact  with  the  enemy,  but  suffered  no  loss.  A 
fine  thing  happened  at  Middletown  on  the  I4th,  the  day  of  the  South 
Mountain  fight.  The  men  had  been  marching  all  day,  and  were  badly 
whipped,  although  they  had  not  been  in  a  fight.  Toward  evening  we 
halted  on  a  beautiful  farm.  The  country  around  Middletown  is  very 
much  like  western  New  York :  open,  with  rolling  hills  and  meadows. 
We  expected  to  remain  here  for  the  night ;  and  no  sooner  had  we 
stacked  arms  than  nine-tenths  of  the  men  made  a  dash  for  a  cornfield  a 
mile  away.  Green  corn  in  those  days  was  a  great  luxury ;  but  we  had 
barely  reached  the  field,  and  began  to  pluck  the  ripened  ears,  when  the 
bugle  sounded  to  fall  in,  and  we  had  to  make  a  lively  return  dash.  This 
extra  effort,  coming  on  top  of  the  heavy  day's  march,  didn't  rest  the 
men  very  much  ;  but  we  fell  in,  and  never  halted  again  until  midnight. 
We  were  then  on  South  Mountain,  and  very  softly  crept  up  to  a  stone 
wall,  believing  that  the  rebels  were  just  on  the  other  side.  Not  a  man 
was  allowed  to  speak,  or  hardly  breathe.  The  morning  broke,  but  the 
rebels  were  not  on  the  other  side  of  the  wall,  nor  anywhere  in  sight._ 

Hitherto  Simmer's  Corps  had  consisted  of  Sedgwick's_  and  Rich 
ardson's  Divisions;  but  on  the  i6th  of  September,  a  third  division  was 
added  to  the  corps,  which  was  under  the  command  of  General  Wm.  H. 
French.  We  arrived  at  Keedysville  on  the  15th,  having  passed 
through  Turner's  Gap,  in  the  South  Mountain  Range.  At  Keedys 
ville,  which  was  only  a  little  hamlet,  there  was  a  most  remarkable  spring 
of  water.  It  was  near  a  small  farmhouse  and  barn.  It  gushed  out 
from  under  a  shelving  rock,  formed  a  deep  reservoir,  and  then  flowed 
off  down  the  hillside  in  a  beautiful  river  of  sparkling  water,  enough  for 
each,  enough  for  all,  enough  for  evermore.  The  thirsty  men  came  to 
drink  as  men  never  drank  before ;  hundreds  of  horses  and  mules  came 
to  take  long  deep  refreshing  draughts,  and  to  shake  their  bridled  heads 
in  the  crystal  flood.  How  many  times  since  have  we  heard  old  soldiers 
speak  of' that  wonderful  spring.  We  have  taken  a  little  pains  to  give 
a  good  picture  of  it  as  it  appears  at  the  present  day ;  but  regret  that  the 
picture  is  not  more  satisfactory.  The  shape  of  the  ground  is  such  that 
it  cannot  be  made  to  take  in  the  little  old  farmhouse  and  barn ;  but  still 
it  shows  the  great  reservoir,  which  is  now  filled  with  growing  water 
cress. 


CHAPTER  IX 

THE  BATTLE  OF  ANTIETAM 

FOR  some  time  the  rebel  forces  had  been  gathering  on  the  hills 
around  Sharpsburg,  three  miles  to  the  west,  and  here  was  to  be 
our  next  great  battle.  As  this  is  not  a  comprehensive  military 
history,  it  is  entirely  aside  from  our  purpose  to  describe  all  the  move 
ments  of  the  army  at  that  time.  On  the  afternoon  of  September  i6th 
we  knew  the  battle  had  begun  off  to  the  north,  and  on  the  other  side 
of  Antietam  Creek,  a  little  river  in  itself,  which  flowed  between 
the  rebel  army  and  our  own.  There  was  little  sleep  in  the  army  that 
night,  but  there  was  time  to  write  letters  home,  telling  the  folks  what 
we  expected.  They  were  the  last  letters  that  forty-three  different  men 
of  the  regiment  ever  wrote.  We  were  astir  very  early  on  the  morning 
of  the  1 7th.  The  heavy  guns  on  both  sides  were  already  booming. 

Discarding  all  roads,  the  whole  division,  in  three  great  parallel 
brigade  columns,  moved  westward  and  northward,  fording  the  great 
Antietam  Creek  near  a  place  called  Pry's  Ford ;  thence  climbing  the 
hills,  we  pushed  on  northward  and  westward,  toward  the  booming  of 
the  big  guns.  The  official  report  which  Colonel  Suiter  made  of  this 


BATTLEFIELD    OF    ANTIETAM    THE    MORNING    AFTER    THE    BATTLE 
(From  an  old  Brady  Photograph.) 


HISTORY   OF   THE  THIRTY-FOURTH    REGIMENT 


battle  is  so  graphic,  and  so  historically  accurate,  that  we  give  it  entire 
right  here,  as  affording  the  very  best  description  of  the  battle  of  An- 
tietam : 

REPORT  OF  COL.  JAMES  A.  SUITER,  THIRTY-FOURTH  NEW  YORK 
INFANTRY,  OF  THE  BATTLE  OF  ANTIETAM. 

HEADQUARTERS,  THIRTY-FOURTH  REGIMENT,  NE\V  YORK  VOLS., 
Battlefield  near  Sharpsburg,  Md.,  September  20,  1862. 

SIR — I  would  most  respectfully  make  the  following  report  of  the  battle  of 
the  i yth  instant. 

We  lay  in  camp  near  Keedysville,  Md.,  on  the  i6th  instant.  In  the  evening 
of  that  day  I  received  an  order  to  be  prepared  to  march  at  daylight  on  the 
morning  of  the  iyth  instant.  In  obedience  to  said  order,  I  was  under  arms 
with  my  command,  and  so  remained  until  the  order  was  given  to  move,  which 
was  about  7.30  oclock  A.M.  We  moved  in  a  northwesterly  direction.  Having 
arrived  within  about  one  and  a  half  miles  of  the  battlefield,  where  General 
Hooker's  forces  had  been  engaged  with  the  enemy,  we  were  formed  in  line  of 
battle  by  brigades,  Gorman's  to  the  front, 
First  Minnesota  Regiment  on  the  right,  Eighty- 
second  Regiment  New  York  Volunteers  second, 
Fifteenth  Regiment  Massachusetts  Volunteers 
third,  and  my  command,  Thirty-fourth  Regi 
ment  New  York  Volunteers,  '  on  the  left. 
General  Dana's  brigade  formed  the  second  line, 
and  General  Howard's  brigade  formed  the 
third  line.  W"e  were  moved  at  double-quick. 
Arriving  near  the  battlefield,  we  were  moved 
by  the  right  flank  through  a  piece  of  timber 
land  (the  East  Woods — ED.)  in  three  columns. 
At  this  point  we  were  considerably  crowded, 
the  three  columns  occupying  an  extent  of  not 
more  than  forty  paces  from  our  left  to  the 
right  flank  of  General  Howard's  brigade,  the 
Seventh  Regiment  Michigan  Volunteers  being 
•crowded  in  my  ranks,  causing  considerable  con 
fusion. 

Arriving  at  the  open  field,  we  were  again 
•ordered  in  line  of  battle,  being  still  at  double 
quick.  We  moved  over  this  field  to  the  pike 
road  leading  to  Sharpsburg.  Fronting  this  was 
a  piece  of  timber  land  (the  West  Woods — ED.), 
into  which  I  moved  my  command,  still  at 
double-quick,  arriving  at  about  twenty  yards 
in  rear  of  a  schoolhouse  (the  Dunkard  Church — ED.),  when  I  discovered 
the  enemy  under  the  hill.  I  immediately  ordered  my  command  to  fire,  which 
they  did  in  gallant  order. 

From  some  cause  to  me  unknown,  I  had  become  detached  from  my  brigade, 
the  One  hundred  and  twenty-fifth  Regiment  Pennsylvania  Volunteers  being  on 
my  right.  On  my  left  and  rear  I  was  entirely  unsupported  by  infantry  or 
artillery.  The  enemy  were  in  strong  force  at  this  point,  and  poured  a  tre 
mendous  fire  of  musketry  and  artillery  upon  me.  At  this  time  I  discovered 
that  the  enemy  were  making  a  move  to  flank  me  on  the  left.  Lieutenant  Howe 
arriving  at  this  time,  I  informed  him  of  my  suspicions.  He  replied  that  he 
thought  they  were  our  friends.  Lieutenant  Wallace,  of  Company  C,  proposed 
going  to  the  front  to  make  what  discovery  he  could,  which  I  granted.  He 
returned,  saying  that  the  enemy  were  moving  upon  my  left  flank  with  a  strong 
force.  I  turned  and  discovered  Lieutenant  Richard  Gorman,  of  General  Gor 
man's  staff,  and  requested  him  to  inform  the  general  that  the  enemy  were 


LIEUTENANT    WILLIAM    R. 

WALLACE— 1863 


TEIE  BATTLE  OF  AXTIETAM  63 

flanking  me.  He  immediately  returned  for  that  purpose.  Presently  General 
Sedgwick  arrived  upon  the  ground.  Moving  down  my  line,  he  discovered 
the  situation  of  my  command,  and  that  the  point  could  not  be  held  by  me,  and 
gave  the  order  for  me  to  retire,  which  I  did.  Rallying  my  command,  I  formed 
them  in  line  of  battle,  supporting  a  battery  some  400  yards  in  rear  of  the  battle 
field. 

In  this  engagement  the  casualties  were  as  follows:  viz.:  32  killed,  109 
wounded  and  9  missing.  Commissioned  officers:  i  killed,  2  wounded,  i  taken 
prisoner  (see  revised  list — ED.). 

In  connection  with  this,  I  cannot  speak  in  too  great  praise  of  my  officers. 
When  all  acted  gallantly,  it  is  impossible  to  single  out  any.  I  would,  therefore, 


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64 


HISTORY   OF  THE   THIRTY-FOURTH    REGIMENT 


say  that  all  did  well  and  behaved  in  the  most  gallant  manner.  Of  Major 
Beverly  I  would  say  that  he  was  invaluable  to  me,  in  assisting  me  on  the  left 
of  my  line  in  the  most  trying  time.  Of  my  color  sergeant  I  cannot  speak  in 
too  high  terms.  He  (Sergeant  Charles  Barton)  had  carried  the  banner  through 
all  of  the  battles  in  which  we  had  been  engaged  while  on  the  peninsula  without 
receiving  a  wound.  Here  it  was  his  fate  to  be  struck  five  times,  and  when  he 
was  compelled  to  drop  his  colors  he  called  upon  his  comrades  to  seize  them 
and  not  to  let  them  fall  into  the  hands  of  the  enemy.  This  was  done  by  Cor 
poral  G.  L.  Haskins,  who  nobly  bore  them  from  the  field. 
All  of  which  is  respectfully  submitted. 

JAMES  A.  SUITER, 

Colonel  Commanding. 
CAPTAIN  J.  W.  GORMAN, 

Assistant  Adjutant  General. 

The  appearance  of  the  field  after  the  battle  is  not  at  all  exagger 
ated  by  the  pictures  which  we  give  of  Bloody  Lane,  and  the  ground  in 
front  of  and  all  around  the  church.  The  field  was  thickly  strewn  with 
dead  bodies,  which  soon  swelled  to  enormous  proportions,  as  is  usual 
in  such  cases.  The  picture  would  be  a  ghastly  one  if  it  could  be  rightly 
painted.  * 

*  Lieutenant  H.  W.  Sanford  of  Company  E,  has  given  us  the  following  account  of  the  bat 
tle,  as  it  appeared  from  his  standpoint,  from  the  time  the  regiment  issued  from  the  East  Woods: 
"  Rushed  forward  at  the  top  of  their  speed  in  broken  order,  one  company  in  rear  of  the  other, 
out  of  breath  and  almost  fainting,  Company  E  was  brought  to  the  very  summit  of  the  ground, 
to  the  left  of  the  lane  leading  to  the  "  Dunkard  Church.  '  From  this  point  could  be  seen  the 
shining  bayonets  of  the  enemy  then  forming  on  the  east  of  the  pike  and  south  of  the  church.  This 
was  evidently  unheeded  by  the  officers  in  command,  as  the  order,  forward  run,  was  still  repeated 
by  aid  and  staff  of  the  commanding  general.  The  enemy  was  not  in  large  force,  protected  by  a 
ledge  of  rocks,  west  of  the  pike  and  in  rear  of  the  Dunkard  Church.  In  less  than  five  minutes 

after  the  regimental  line  had  been  formed,  five 
of  Company  E  lay  dead  or  dying,  almost  within 
touch  of  each  other.  The  haste  with  which  this  ad 
vanced  position  was  taken,  opened  a  space  of  about 
one-half  mile  between  the  left  of  this  line  and  the 
next  line  of  Federal  troops.  This  fatal  error  had  no 
sooner  been  committed  than  it  was  taken  advantage  of 
by  the  Confederates,  by  moving  through  that  open 
space  and  to  the  rear  of  our  line.  Thus  it  was,  when  we 
had  altogether  the  worst  of  the  position,  and  were  en 
gaged  by  those  in  our  front  at  short  range,  we  found 
ourselves  flanked  and  enfiladed  by  a  vastly  superior 
force.  Surrender  or  death  seemed  to  be  the  only  thing 
in  sight.  To  secure  liberty  the  "cornfield"  must  be 
recrossed,  over  the  bodies  of  the  dead  and  dying,  not 
in  the  route  we  had  come,  but  by  a  circuitous  course, 
in  the  face  of  a  destructive  fire  of  musketry  at  short 
range.  It  is  a  mystery  that  will  never  be  solved,  how 
it  was  possible  for  any  one  to  pass  through  such  a 
death-trap  and  live  to  record  the  fact.  Many  of  the 
men  fell  from  exhaustion,  and  were  swept  beneath  the 
wave,  like  the  undertow  of  the  ocean  beach.  The 
writer  of  this  sketch  fell  but  a  rod  or  two  in  front  of  our 
battery,  and  within  about  the  same  distance  from  the 
charging  foe.  Our  artillerymen  were  waiting,  with 
cannon  charged  with  gra-pe  and  canister,  to  uncover  the 
enemy  so  that  they  might  not  slaughter  their  friends. 
Shot  after  shot  was  fired  in  quick  succession  full  in  the 
face  of  the  foe,  opening  wide 'gaps,  at  every  discharge, 
and  sending  fragments  of  men  into  the  air,  in  all  direc 
tions,  adding  rivers  of  gore  to  a  field  already  deeply 
dyed  by  the  blood  of  both  armies.  Probably  there  was 
never  a"  time  known  in  the  history  of  modern  warfare 
where  so  many  men  were  slain  as  upon  that  con 
secrated  ground  on  that  i?th  day  of  September, 
1862.  Surely,  the  demon  of  death  must  have  been 
fullv  satiated.  Company  E  lost  more  than  half  its 
men  present  for  duty.  While  several  were  within 
LIEUT.  HENRY  W.  SANFORD— 1902  thp  fnemy's  UneSi  and  were  prisoners,  only  one 

(Afterward  Captain)  remained  and  was  taken  to  Richmond." 


THE  BATTLE  OF  ANTIETAM 


The  following  is  a  list  of  those  killed  in  this  battle.  For  purposes 
of  condensation  we  have  counted  those  who  subsequently  died  of 
wounds,  as  among  the  killed : 


Adle,  John  H.— C. 
Allen, '  William— G. 
Armour,  David — C. 
Ashley,  Sergt.  Jacob  J. — C. 
Bailey,  Henry — C.  ^ 
Beardsley,  John — G. 
Bramley,  Henry — D. 
Buck,  Martin — A. 
Bullock,  Milford  N.— K. 
Carey,  Corp.  David — A. 
Cool,  Stephen— B. 
Coon,  James — E. 
Coonan,  Patrick — D. 
Crouch,  Corp.  David — F. 
Dickson,  John — F. 
Donohoe,  James — A. 
Easterbrook,  Albert  G.— G. 
Eldridge,  William  E.— G. 
Gadban,  Lewis — D. 
Gillman,  Henry — A. 
Greek,  Ezra— I. 
Hartley,  Robert  H.— A. 

The  following  are  the  names 
Ambrecht,  Caesar — K. 
Andrews.  Sergt.  Joseph — A. 
Aunuck,  James  M. — E. 
Ballard,  William  H.— B. 
Barton,  Color  Sergt.  Charles  B. — C. 
Beers,  George  W.— H. 
Benchley,  Willett  H.— G. 
Bigelow,  Orville  C.— H. 
Blanchard,  Zelotus — D. 
Bogardus,  Sergt.  Henry — E. 
Boh,  Martin — C. 
Brennan,  John — B. 
Cameron,  Donald — A. 
Campion,  Corp.  John — B. 
Carey,  John — G. 
Carter,  Webster — D. 
Carto,  Jerome  M. — D. 
Chamberlain,  Orlando  R. — E 
Colgrove,  William  R. — E. 
Comstock,  Orrin — K. 
Crist,  First  Sergt.  James  B.— F. 
Davison,  Edward — B. 
Delaney,  Franklin  B.— I. 
Dugan,  James — A. 
Fenn,  Corp.  George  H. — H. 
Fort,  Jesse  R.  — B. 
Frasher,  Peter  N. — F. 
Freindenthall,  Henry — I. 
Gorman,  Martin — A. 
Gough.  Eli — C. 
Green,  Charles  J  — H. 


Hawley,  George  A. — -E. 
Hayes,  Dennis — D. 
Helmer,  Sergt.  Aaron — G. 
Hill,  Second  Lieut.  Clarence  E.— H. 
Hicks,  Lawrence — G. 
Hubbell,  Henry— D. 
Jolly,  Peter— D. 
Lewis,  William — K. 
Ladew,  Warren  C.— B. 
Lyon,  First  Sergt.  Henry  C. — I. 
Mead,  Sergt.  Garland  W.— G. 
Murphy,  John — A. 
Mycue,  John — D. 
O'Keef,  Corp.  Arthur— B. 
Orcutt,  Alvin — E. 

Rhodes,  Color  Sergt.  Chester  S. — H. 
Rubbins,  William — G. 
Salisbury,  William  A. — C. 
Sashagra,  Anthony — D. 
Walby,  Ralph— B. 
White,  Daniel— E. 
Total  43 

of  those  wounded  in  this  battle : 
Green,  Jacob — B. 
Green,  John — D. 
Hanna,  Alexander  A. — 
Harris,  William  H.— I. 
Harthouse,  Augustus — B. 
Hayden,  Frank — A. 
Hayden,  Oscar  E. — C. 
Heenan,  Timothy — A. 
Heidel,  Christopher — C. 
Hemmitt,  Benjamin  A. — H. 
Hovey,  Corp.  Charles  W.— I. 
Hovenden,  Adam — H. 
Hutton,  Henry  T. — I. 
Lamountain,  John — G. 
Lewis,  William  H.— F. 
Little,  Corp.  Marshall— C. 
Lorman,  Henry — A. 
McDonald,  Michael— I. 
McLaughlin,  John — K. 
Medealf,  Corp.  Theodore — B. 
Mills,  Henry— C. 
Moore,  John — G. 
Morgan,  John — F. 
Morse,  Corp.  Amos. — C. 
Northridge,.  George — D. 
Powers,  Seth  D.— G. 
Rathbone,  Corp.  Charles  A. — C 
Regan,  Owen — B. 
Roosevelt,  Cornelius — F. 
Rounds.  First  Sergt.  Armineas  S  — G. 
Ryan,  Michael  Butler— R. 


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Sawyer,  Loren — H.  Traver,  William — A. 

Scott,  George — D.  Waldron,  Sergt.  George  W. — H. 

Sherwood,  Corp.  Joshua — C.  Wells,  Hamilton — B. 

Slawson,  John  H.— F.  Willoughby,  Charles  A.— C. 

Straight,  Martin — F.  Young,  Corp.  Edward — E. 

Taff,  Labien— E. 

Traver,  Sergt.  Henry — K.  Total — 74. 

The  country  in  this  vicinity  has  changed  very  much  since  the  great 
battle.  Fields  of  wheat  and  corn,  orchards  of  apple  and  peach,  have 
taken  the  place  of  the  old  woods.  The  soil  is  said  to  be  very  rich,  and 
it  would  not  be  difficult  to  explain  why.  Human  lives  are  the  richest 
of  phosphates.  When  the  farmers  sought  to  cut  down  these  woods, 
they  found  the  task  well-nigh  impossible,  so  full  were  the  oaks  of 
bullets  and  shell.  Every  square  rod  of  this  land  has  yielded  many  relics 
since  that  day,  and  even  now  one  has  to  walk  but  a  little  way  to  find 
bullets  on  the  plowed  ground.  There  was  an  effort  made  to  gather  all 
the  dead  buried  on  these  fields  into  the  National  Cemetery ;  but  of  the 
forty-three  men  from  the  Thirty-fourth,  killed  and  buried  here,  only 
eleven  sleep  in  identified  graves.  These  are :  John  H.  Adle,  Company 
C ;  Henry  Bailey,  Company  D ;  John  Beardsley,  Company  G ;  James 
Donohoe,  Company  A ;  Henry  Oilman,  Company  A ;  Peter  Jolly,  Com 
pany  D ;  W.  H.  Lewis,  Company  K ;  Alvin  Orcutt,  Company  E ;  Chester 
S.  Rhodes,  Company  H;  William  Rubbins,  Company  G;  William  A. 
Salisbury,  Company  C. 

Along  the  roads  leading  through  the  extensive  battlefield  there  are 
iron  tablets  erected  to  tell  the  story  of  Antietam.  On  a  number  of  these 
tablets  are  references  to  the  Thirty-fourth.  One  of  the  many  standing 
in  front  of  the  old  church  contains  the  following  inscription : 

U.  S.  A. 

SECOND  ARMY  CORPS. 
MAJOR  GENERAL  E.  V.  SUMNER,  COMMANDING. 

(SEPTEMBER   17,   1862) 

At  daybreak  of  the  iyth  the  three  divisions  of  the  2d  corps  were  east  of 
the  Antietam;  Sedgwick's  and  French's  near  Army  Headquarters,  Richardson's 
in  advance  behind  the  bluff,  overlooking  the  Antietam.  At  7:30  A.M.,  Sedg 
wick's  Division  moved,  crossed  the  Antietam  at  Pry's  Ford  and,  advancing 
through  the  east  woods  and  Miller's  cornfield  and  the  fields  to  the  South,  in 
column  of  brigades,  crossed  the  Hagerstown  Pike  about  a  third  of  a  mile  north 
of  this,  entered  the  west  woods,  and  the  right  and  center  had  reached  the 
open  ground  beyond,  when  its  advance  was  checked  by  Jackson's  command 
and  the  artillery  of  Stuart's  Cavalry  division. 

Gorman's  Brigade  was  in  first  line,  its  left  regiment,  the  34th  New  York, 
a  few  yards  west  of  the  Dunkard  Church  and  separated  from  the  brigade  by 
an  interval  of  460  yards,  the  brigade  line  running  in  a  general  direction  north 
west,  its  right  940  yards  from  this  and  610  yards  west  of  the  Hagerstown  Pike. 
Dana's  and  Howard's  Brigades  were  in  second  and  third  lines  respectively, 
their  left  flanks  in  the  ravine  and  on  the  roll  of  ground  200  to  250  yards  north 
west  of  this  and  260  to  300  yards  west  of  the  Pike.  In  this  position  the  left 
flank  of  the  division  was  attacked  and  turned  by  McLaws'  and  Walker's  divisions 
and  it  was  obliged  to  retreat  northward  to  the  fields  and  woods  beyond  D.  JR. 
Miller's. 

The  little  old  Dunkard  Church,  which,  through  all  the  battle,  stood 
exposed  to  the  fierce  fire  from  both  armies,  to-day  shows  few  marks 


THE  BATTLE  OF  ANTIETAM  69 

of  the  ordeal  through  which  it  passed.  Great  care  has  no  doubt  been 
taken  to  preserve  it.  The  society,  we  are  told,  now  holds  services  in 
the  church  but  once  a  month,  having  another  church  in  Sharpsburg 
village,  which  is  the  accustomed  place  of  worship.  There  is  a  provision 
in  the  original  deed  of  the  gift  from  Mr.  Mumma,  whereby  the  lot  re 
verts  to  the  original  heirs,  in  case  it  is  ever  used  for  any  other  than  re 
ligious  purposes.  On  the  front  of  the  building  by  the  door,  there  is  a 
bronze  tablet,  on  which  is  the  following  legend : 


THE 

DUNKARD  CHURCH. 

ERECTED   A.    D.,    1853,   BY   THE   GERMAN   BAPTIST 

BRETHREN.     DURING  THE  BATTLE  THE  WOUNDED 

OF  BOTH  ARMIES  SOUGHT  AND  FOUND 

SANCTUARY  WITHIN  ITS  WALLS. 

THE  CHURCH  WAS  SERIOUSLY  INJURED  BY  THE 

FIRE  OF  THE  UNION  BATTERIES  ON 

SEPTEMBER  17,  1862. 

THE  BUILDING  WAS  REPAIRED,  AND  DIVINE 

WORSHIP  WAS  RESUMED  DURING  THE  SUMMER 

OF  1864. 


The  following  incident  of  the  battle  was  related  by  the  writer  at 
the  dedication:  Milford  N.  Bullock,  of  Company  K,  was  found  dead 
on  the  field  after  the  battle.  The  position  in  which  he  was  lying  indi 
cated  the  painful  circumstances  of  his  death.  He  was  lying  on  his  back, 
his  rifle  by  his  side.  The  ramrod  of  his  gun  was  in  his  hand,  the  lower 
end  against  the  trigger  of  the  gun,  and  the  muzzle  of  the  gun  at  his 
head.  It  appeared  at  the  time  that  the  wound  he  had  received  had  not 
been  sufficient  to  cause  instant  death ;  but,  being  in  mortal  agony,  he  had 
contrived  to  end  his  sufferings  by  taking  his  own  life.  He  had  placed 
the  gun  by  his  side,  the  muzzle  at  his  head,  and  by  means  of  the  ramrod 
had  succeeded  in  discharging  it.  The  circumstances  were  all  so  pain 
ful,  that  his  comrades,  at  the  suggestion  of  Captain  Northup,  agreed 
that  they  would  not  mention  them  in  their  letters  home.  But  now,  after 
forty  years,  there  is  no  harm  in  referring  to  them.  Young  Bullock  was 
from  Stratford,  Herkimer  County,  and  was  highly  esteemed  by  all  who 
knew  him.  His  courage,  his  fidelity  to  duty  were  always  unquestioned. 
His  grave  is  not  at  home  among  his  kindred,  but  far  away,  like  that  of 
so  many  others.  He  sleeps  among  the  many  unknown  dead,  in  the 
great  National  Cemetery  at  Antietam ;  but  we  have  never  walked  down 
those  beautiful  shaded  aisles  without  feeling  that  we  were  again  very 
near  to  our  beloved  comrade  of  those  far-off  days. 

In  all  the  writing  of  this  little  history,  which,  at  times,  has  proved 
to  be  a  somewhat  arduous  task,  nothing  has  given  the  author  so  much 
encouragement  and  comfort  as  the  feeling  that  by  his  labors  he  was 


70  HISTORY  OF   THE   THIRTY-FOURTH   REGIMENT 

calling  the  attention  of  the  world  to  the  loyalty,  the  courage,  the  devo 
tion,  and  the  ultimate  sacrifice  of  their  all  by  these,  the  world's  "just 
common  men."  Other  men  have  had  the  privilege  of  living  on,  and 
planning  and  completing  their  life  work.  But  these  men  were  cut  off 
in  the  flower  of  their  youth.  But  who  shall  say  that,  in  their  death,  they 
did  not,  perhaps,  accomplish  more  for  others  and  more  for  their  coun 
try,  than  many  who  survived  them?  If,  as  we  say,  life  is  not  measured 
by  years,  but  by  deeds,  surely  these  men  by  their  supreme  sacrifice, 
have  rendered  their  names  worthy  to  be  remembered  by  a  grateful  coun 
try,  for  all  coming  time. 

While  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  was  marching  in  pursuit  of  the 
enemy,  there  was  great  discouragement  felt  all  through  the  north, 
which  had  not  a  single  victory  to  its  credit  anywhere  in  sight.  The 
campaign  on  the  peninsula  had  proved  a  failure;  Pope  had  been  de 
feated,  and  Lee's  army  was  pushing  north.  Dr.  Theodore  L.  Cuyler, 
who  was  at  that  time  in  France,  in  his  reminiscences  just  published, 
quotes  the  following  from  our  ambassador  to  that  country,  Hon.  Wm. 
L.  Dayton,  in  regard  to  the  state  of  public  sentiment  in  that  country  : 

Dayton  said :  "Our  prospects  are  dark  enough.  All  the  monarchs  and  aristo 
crats  are  against  us;  all  the  cotton  and  commercial  interests  are  against  us. 
Emperor  Louis  Napoleon  is  a  sphinx,  but  he  would  like  to  help  to  acknowledge 
the  Southern  Confederacy.  If  he  does  so,  Belgium  and  other  powers  will  join 
him;  they  will  break  the  blockade;  they  will  supply  the  Confederates  with  arms, 
and  then  we  must  fight  Europe  as  well  as  the  Southern  States.  Our  only  real 
friends  are  men  like  John  Bright,  and  those  who  believe  that  we  are  fighting  for 
freedom,  as  well  as  for  our  National  Union.  Mr.  Lincoln  must  declare  for  emanci 
pation,  and  unless  he  does  it  within  thirty  days,  I  have  written  to  Mr.  Seward 
that  our  cause  is  lost." 

Dr.  Cuyler  adds : 

"I  returned  to  London  with  a  heavy  heart;  all  of  our  friends  there  with  whom 
I  conversed  echoed  the  sentiments  of  Mr.  Dayton.  One  of  them  said  to  me, 
'  Earl  Russell  has  no  special  love  for  your  Union,  but  he  abominates  negro  slavery, 
and  is  very  reluctant  to  acknowledge  a  new  slave-owning  government.  Prince 
Albert  and  the  Queen  are  friendly  to  you,  but  you  must  emancipate  the  slaves.' 
On  Sunday  evening,  Sept.  7,  after  my  return  home,  I  addressed  a  vast  crowd  in 
my  own  Lafayette  Avenue  Church,  and  told  them  frankly,  that  our  only  hope 
was  in  a  proclamation  for  freedom  by  President  Lincoln.  Henry  Ward  Beecher 
invited  me  to  repeat  my  address  on  the  next  Sunday  evening  in  Plymouth 
Church.  I  did  so,  and  the  house  was  packed  clear  out  to  the  sidewalk.  '  On  the 
Wednesday  of  that  very  week  the  Battle  of  Antietam  was  fought,  and  on  the 
Friday  morning  we  opened  our  papers,  and  read  President  Lincoln's  first  Procla 
mation  of  Emancipation.  The  great  deed  was  done;  the  night  was  over;  the 
morning  had  dawned." 

Just  forty  years  after  the  events  we  have  described,  a  little  handful 
of  men,  almost' the  sole  survivors  of  the  great  regiment,  alighted  from 
a  train  at  the  little  town  of  Keedysville,  the  same  little  Keedysville  as  of 
old,  and  near  unto  the  same  great  spring,  and  proceeded  by  almost  the 
identical  route  they  had  taken  on  the  morning  of  September  17,  1862, 
to  the  same  quaint  old  Dunkard  Church,  where,  with  loving  hands, 
they  dedicated  a  noble  monument,  erected  to  the  memory  of  the  com 
rades  who  had  fallen  on  that  historic  field. 


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CHAPTER    X 

FROM  ANTIETAM  TO  FREDERICKSBURG 

^  EPTEMBER  22,  the  Thirty-fourth  left  the  vicinity  of  Antietam 
field,  marched  through  the  little  town  of  Sharpsburg,  which, 
in  all  these  years,  seems  hardly  to  have  lost  or  gained  a 
single  house,  and  took  its  course  down  the  Potomac,  crossed  the 
river  at  the  famous  Harper's  Ferry,  which  it  reached  at  three 
o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  ascended  the  familiar  Bolivar  Heights, 
and  pitched  its  tents  once  more  on  the  same  ground  it  had  oc 
cupied  the  previous  spring.  It  was  noticed  that  the  regiment 
required  fewer  tents  to  house  it  now  than  then.  On  every  side  were 
the  evidences  of  the  struggle  that  had  taken  place  just  before.  The 
ground  was  thickly  strewn  with  cannon-ball  and  shell,  the  detritus  of 
the  Miles  surrender.  Here  it  was  the  brigade  was  strengthened  by  the 
increment  of  a  new  regiment,  the  Nineteenth  Maine.  These  new  men 
were  a  fine  and  sturdy  lot  of  fellows  ;  but  as  yet  pretty  green  in  the  ways 
of  military  life.  We  began  by  calling  them  the  Nineteenth  Maniacs. 


BURXSIDE   S    BRIDGE,    AXTIETAM IOO2 


72  HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-FOURTH  REGIMENT 

On  the  first  night  after  their  arrival  some  of  the  men  collected  some  of 
the  scattered  shells,  making  a  little  fireplace,  and  proceeded  to  cook 
their  coffee.  In  a  little  while  there  was  a  terrific  explosion.  Fortu 
nately  nobody  was  hurt.  That  is  how  and  why  we  came  to  call  them 
the  Nineteenth  Maniacs.  Afterward,  however,  the  regiment  won  for 
itself  such  a  splendid  record  that  no  man  ever  dared  doubt  its  sanity. 
As  it  was  likely  we  should  remain  on  the  Heights  for  some  time,  orders 
were  given  for  the  erection  of  a  bake  oven.  Some  ingenious  men  in  the 
regiment  had  devised  a  sort  of  portable  oven  made  of  brick,  which  could 
easily  be  taken  down,  and  moved  about.  Thus,  you  may  discover,  we 
could  occasionally  be  treated  to  fresh  bread,  an  enemy  some  people  flee 
from ;  but  not  the  soldiers.  But  alas,  in  this  instance,  no  sooner  had  we 
the  oven  erected  than  orders  came  to  forward  march,  and  we  saw  no 
fresh  bread.  Here  again,  the  men  were  paid  off,  receiving  four-months' 
pay ;  likewise  the  men  received  allowances  of  fresh  clothing,  sorely 
needed.  At  this  time  the  writer  of  this  history  wrote  to  his  home  paper, 
September  24 : 

"Captain  Sponable,  wounded  at  Fair  Oaks,  arrived  last  night  with  six  new 
recruits,  all  of  whom  will  probably  join  Company  K.  The  captain  looks  as  if  he 
had  suffered  a  good  deal,  but  is  in  his  usual  good  spirits.  Company  B,  his  old 


HARPER  S    FERRY,    VA. A     RECENT    PICTURE 


FROM  ANTIETAM  TO  FREDERICKSBURG  73 

company,  numbers  at  this  time  but  six  men.  Lieutenant-Colonel  Laflin,  Cap 
tain  Baldwin,  Company  E;  Lieutenant  Walton,  and  Lieutenant  Clark  have  all 
returned  to  the  regiment  again.  Captain  Riley  has  gone  home  on  a  short  fur 
lough  to  get  another  set  of  teeth,  he  having  worn  out  no  less  than  three  sets  during 
the  late  campaign,  eating  hard  bread,  the  doctor  having  recommended  new 
teeth  as  the  only  alternative  to  starvation.  Persons  contemplating  enlisting 
should  provide  themselves  with  several  extra  sets  of  teeth,  as  they  are  a  great 
convenience  in  the  army,  and  hard  to  get  down  here."  We  also  wrote  this  on 
the  same  date:  "The  painful  intelligence  of  the  death  of  Major  Beverly's  wife 
at  home  has  cast  a  deep  gloom  over  the  spirit  of  the  regiment,  augmented  by  the 
stern  necessity  which  forbade  his  departure  for  home  upon  the  reception  of  the 
news.  Trouble  never  comes  alone;  and  the  major  has  just  returned  from  a  visit 
back  to  Antietam,  whither  he  went  to  see  a  brother  in  the  Ninety-seventh  Regi 
ment,  who  was  wounded  in  the  battle  and  has  just  had  a  limb  amputated." 
Lieutenant  Clark  also  went  along,  to  try  and  recover  the  remains  of  his  brother, 
who  was  killed  in  the  battle,  in  which  effort  he  was  successful.  On  the  315!  we 
wrote:  "Captain  Riley  has  returned  to  the  regiment  again,  and  the  familiar 
countenance  of  Lieutenant  Joe  Shoemaker,  resigned,  has  also  been  visible 
lately." 

On  October  30  the  army  left  the  old  camp  on  Bolivar,  crossed  the 
Shenandoah,  which  empties  into  the  Potomac  at  this  point,  on  a  pon 
toon  bridge,  swung  around  the  base  of  London  Heights,  and  took  its 
way  up  the  beautiful  valley,  which  lies  along  the  eastern  side  of  the 
Blue  Ridge  Mountains.  That  night  we  camped  in  a  splendid  wood, 
called  Hill  Grove.  November  i  we  occupy  Gregory's  Gap  in  the  moun 
tains.  November  3  sees  us  at  Snicker's  Gap,  and  November  4  we  move 
through  the  little  town  of  Paris,  and  occupy  Ashby's  Gap.  All  this 
time  we  are  known  to  be  not  far  from  the  enemy,  and  our  progress  is 
slow.  We  feel  our  way  with  the  fingers  of  the  pickets.  The  enemy  is 
slowly  receding  before  us,  and  after  threatening  a  battle  moves  on,  and 
lets  us  have  the  Gap.  The  country  seems  abandoned  by  the  male 
inhabitants ;  probably  they  are  all  in  the  army ;  but  there  is  poultry  to 
be  had  and  it  is  not  scorned ;  and  "  there  is  hogs  "  and  they  are  not 
despised.  We  always  have  hogs  in  barrels  ;  but  these  are  the  real  thing, 
and  we  have  no  Hebrew  prejudices.  It  seems  no  sooner  had  we  left  the 
little  dirty  town  of  Paris,  than  the  sutlers,  who  thronged  the  army, 
began  trading  with  the  inhabitants,  when  they  were  gobbled  up  by  a  band 
of  rebel  cavalry  that  swooped  down  upon  them.  November  6  we  quit 
camp  at  Ashby,  the  brigade  acting  as  rear  guard  to  the  rest  of  the 
army.  Now  we  begin  to  get  a  touch  of  winter.  The  wind  is  raw  and 
gusty,  and  the  air  is  full  of  snow.  A  far  more  northern  clime  could  not 
beat  this  for  wintry  weather.  Toward  night  we  halted,  and  would 
have  been  glad  to  rest,  but  the  deadly  picket  demand  was  on  us.  It 
was  our  turn.  Night  of  suffering.  'The  next  day  the  weather  con 
tinued  unreformed. 

The  writer  records  with  interest  an  incident  which  occurred  at  this 
stage  of  the  forward  march.  If  his  memory  serves  him,  it  was  on  the 
night  of  the  8th.  We  had  been  marching  all  day,  and  until  very  late  at 
night,  and  were  completely  beat  out.  As  soon  as  we  came  to  a  halt, 
and  arms  were  stacked,  the  men  sank  in  their  tracks,  and  in  a  moment 
were  asleep.  The  writer  remembers  waking  after  daylight  the  next 


QUARTERMASTER    NATHAN    EASTERBROOK,    JR. IQO2 


FROM  ANTIETAM  TO  FREDERICKSBURG  75 

^g*.  morning',  and  finding  himself  under  a  heavy  cover- 

J  ^V  let  of  snow,  fully  four  inches  thick.  He  raised  on 

•I  ^  |f  his  elbow,  and  took  a  look  around.  The  sight  that 

y^L    •  met  his  eyes  was  very  interesting.     The  sleeping 

jB^  men  were  all  under  snow ;  and  as  they  had  lain 

^^^^g^^^.  down  in  rows,  same  as  they  marched,  the  appear 

ance  was  that  of  a  cemetery,  the  graves  all  in  rows, 
according  to  the  fashion  we  are  all  familiar  with. 
The  sight  was  weird  enough.  Soon  a  second  grave 
was  opened,  and  another  body  arose.  There  was 
QUARTERMASTER  a  sliout,  and  then  a  general  resurrection.  The 
EASTERBROOK— 1863  Fifteenth  Massachusetts  called  this  "Camp  Snow 
storm,"  and  it  was  well  named. 

On  that  8th  day  of  November  we  passed  through  the  little  town  of 
Rectorsville.  All  this  time,  it  must  be  remembered,  we  were  constantly 
in  the  presence  of  the  enemy,  and  skirmishes  were  of  daily  occurrence ; 
while  the  weather  was  of  a  character  not  fit  to  be  mentioned  in  decent 
society.  W.  J.  Coulter  of  the  Fifteenth  Massachusetts,  of  our  brigade, 
put  it  in  pretty  correct  style  writing  home  at  this  time :  "  You  can 
imagine  how  agreeable  it  is  to  be  out  in  a  raging  snowstorm  night  and 
day,  without  any  shelter  more  than  would  be  afforded  by  a  sheet  spread 
over  the  fence,  with  four  corners  pinned  to  the  ground."  And  he 
might  have  added  that  this  sheet  was  always  escaping  its  fastenings, 
and  taking  to  itself  the  wings  of  the  wind.  However,  it  is  evident  that 
some  of  us  at  least  have  lived  to  laugh  at  the  storms  of  those  ancient 
times.  After  a  brief  rest,  on  we  go,  pushing  through  night  and  storm, 
till  two  o'clock  in  the  morning,  when  we  find  ourselves  pretty  well 
banged  up  with  the  hard  marching,  the  storm  and  exposure,  but  still  in 
good  spirits. 

Monday  morning,  November  10,  is  an  important  date  in  the  his 
tory  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac.  On  that  day  the  great  army  loses 
its  young  commander,  General  George  B.  McClellan,  a  man  this 
country  will  probably  never  get  tired  debating. 

The  Second  Corps,  consisting  now  of  three  divisions,  was  drawn 
up  on  the  left  side  of  the  Centerville  turnpike  while  General  McClellan, 
riding  with  General  Burnside,  his  successor,  and  each  attended  by  a 
great  staff  retinue,  swept  along  the  road,  amid  the  greatest  shouting, 
and  other  demonstrations  from  the  men.  Xo  Fourth  of  July  parade 
about  a  great  military  turnout  like  this ;  it  was  the  real  thing.  Gold 
lace,  brass  buttons,  dangling  swords,  prancing  steeds,  salvos  of  ar 
tillery,  fluttering  of  a  thousand  flags,  and  the  shoutings  of  a  host.  No 
make  believe  about  a  show  like  that.  McClellan  was  always  popular 
with  the  rank  and  file.  But  all  the  sober  heads  could  always  see  how, 
as  at  Fair  Oaks,  and  Malvern  Hill,  and  Antietam^  when  a  hard,  quick 
blow  needed  to  be  struck  on  a  beaten  foe — it  wasn't. 

But  now  it  is  Burnside's  day,  and  we  shall  see  what  we  shall  see. 
It  is  also  the  day  of  another  man.  General  Willis  A.  Gorman,  com 
mander  of  the  brigade,  takes  his  leave  about  this  time,  having  been 


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HISTORY   OF   THE  THIRTY- FOURTH    REGIMENT 


assigned  to  the  command  of  the  District  of  Arkansas,  under  General 
Curtis.  He  is  succeeded  by  Colonel  Alfred  Sully,  until  now  in  com 
mand  of  the  First  Minnesota  of  the  brigade.  Gorman  was  a  singular 
man  in  some  respects.  When  in  action  he  never  gave  his  commands  in 
an  ordinary  tone ;  but  roared  them  out,  like  a  bull  of  Bashan.  Before 
the  battle  of  Fair  Oaks  he  was  known  to  speak  of  the  Thirty-fourth  as 
"  that  New  York  Mob  " ;  a  designation  that  never  had  an  atom  of  well- 
founded  truth  in  it.  But  after  Fair  Oaks  he  was  unstinted  in  his  praise 
of  the  courage  and  fortitude  of  the  regiment.  On  the  other  hand,  some 

undevout  romancers  in  the  regi 
ment,  in  the  early  days,  had  been 
known  to  speak  of  the  brigade  com 
mander  as  "Old  Gorman;"  but,  in 
fact,  each  came  to  think  better  of 
the  other  as  time  went  on.  Gorman 
resigned  his  new  command  in  1864 
on  account  of  ill  health;  and  died 
in  May,  1876. 

At  this  time,  singularly 
enough,  there  were  changes  all  the 
way  up  the  great  incline.  General 
John  Sedgwick,  the  division  com-- 
m  a  n  d  e  r,  had  been  seriously 
wounded  at  Antietam,  and,  though 
he  recovered,  did  not  return  to  his 
old  command ;  but  instead  took  the 
command  of  the  Sixth  Corps,  and 
General  O.  O.  Howard,  "the  Chris 
tian  General,"  took  command  of  the 
Second  Division.  Then,  also, 
Sumner,  commander  of  the  Second 
Corps,  was  moved  up  a  peg,  being 
assigned  to  command  of  the  "Grand 

Right  Wing,"  a  brand  new  designation,  said  right  wing  consisting 
of  the  Second  and  Ninth  Corps,  and  General  Darius  M.  Couch  suc 
ceeding  Sumner  at  the  head  of  the  Second  Corps.  Surely,  with  all 
these  great  and  good  new  generals,  all  the  way  up  and  down  the 
line  we  may  look  to  see  wonders  done,  and  with  a  rush. 

November  15,  on  toward  Richmond.  Two  days  later  we  are  up 
in  the  valley  back  of  Falmouth,Va.,  camped  in  a  dense  oak  woods,  which 
soon  will  vanish  under  the  stroke  of  the  woodman's  axe.  This  is  to  be 
a  historic  site.  Before  we  leave  this  spot  we  shall  change  the  whole 
face  of  the  country.  Thanksgiving  Day  spent  here  was  not  a  day  of 
bubbling  ecstasy  over  gifts  received.  The  soldiers  might  have  united 
with  Fernando  Wood,  Mayor  of  New  York,  in  saying :  "  While  in  my 
judgment  the  past  year  presents  very  little  for  which  we  may 
properly  be  thankful,  yet  it  is  well  enough  to  observe  the  day." 
And  we  did. 


CAPTAIN    EUGENE    B.    LARROWE 186 


FROM  ANTI-ETAM  TO  FREDERICKSBURG 


77 


Down  at  the  end  of  this  valley  lay  the  little  decayed  town  of  Fal- 
mouth,  snuggled  close  by  the  Rappahannock  River.  Below,  where  the 
river  bank  bulged  to  a  considerable  height,  was  the  historic  Lacy  House, 
the  headquarters  of  General  Burnside,  owned  and  kept  by  a  widow, 
whose  husband  had  been  killed  in  the  rebel  army,  and  who^ "  regretted 
that  she  did  not  have  a  dozen  more  to  give  to  her  country.']  Opposite 
the  Lacy  House,  stretching  along  the  river  bank,  lay  the  quaint,  old,  and 
now  doubly  historic  town  of  Fredericksburg ;  home  of  Washington  at 
one  time,  tomb  of  his  mother  to  this  day.  In  and  about  this  little  city 
war  was  soon  and  long  to  rage,  devastating  its  quiet  streets,  and  making 
one  vast  cemetery  of  all  the  surrounding  country.  Within  the  National 
Cemetery  at  this  place  now  are  camped  the  sleeping  soldiers  of  the 
great  war.  This  harvest  was  reaped  from  a  hundred  fields :  sheaves 
from  the  Burnside  slaughter  on  the  I3th  of  December,  1862;  from 
Chancellorsville,  Salem  Church,  Marye's  Heights,  and  the  battles  of 
the  Wilderness.  There  certainly  seems  a  divine  propriety  in  the  plan 
to  make  this  comprehensive  field  a  National  Park,  the  same  as  at  Gettys 
burg  and  elsewhere.  There  is  no  other  single  tract,  lying  within  the 
scope  of  the  Thirty-fourth's  two-years'  campaign,  that  has  so  much  in 
terest  for  this  old  regiment. 


OLD    CAMP    GROUND    BACK    OF    FALMOUTH,    VA.,    AS    IT    LOOKS    AT    PRESENT,    1902 
Our  Camp  was  high  on  the  Left  Center,  along  the  Ridge  now  covered  with  Second  Growth  Timber. 


HISTORY   OF   THE   THIRTY-FOURTH    REGIMENT 


The  month  that  followed  in  this  new  camp  was  one  of  hard  work 
for  all  the  men.  The  winter  soon  set  in  in  real  earnest,  and  the  men 
tried  to  make  themselves  as  comfortable  as  possible,  by  the  erection  of 
winter  quarters,  though  no  prophet  knew  whether  we  would  stay  here 
a  day  or  a  month.  The  river  was  some  distance  away  from  the  camp, 

and  its  long  shore  had  to  be 
guarded  with  a  heavy  line  of 
pickets.  Six  companies  were 
taken  from  the  regiment  every 
/jjmjj^  (la}r  f°r  that  purpose.  As  there 

&f~  /^£     9L*  are  but  ten  com~ 

w^^  K*  panics  in  a  regiment, 

it  requires  no  very 
profound  m  a  t  h  e- 
matics  to  work  out 
the  statement  that 
every  other  day  the 
same  company 
would  have  to  go  on 
picket  twice  in  suc 
cession.  But  this 
amount  of  arithmetic 
was  a  little  too  much 
for  some  of  the  men-,, 
and  there  was  kick 
ing.  But  there  was 
one  man  in  the  regi 
ment  who  under 
stood  it,  and  that 
<-*  f  ~  man  was  Tim 

Greene,  of  Company  K.  Jim  always  had  a  mind  for  clear  thinking  and 
tor  precise  statement ;  and  so,  when  little  Leander  Brown  of  the  same 
company,  which  was  on  the  right  of  line,  and  which  had  come  in  after 
a  cold,  rainy  night  on  picket,  and  was  immediately  detailed  to  go  out 
again,  when  we  say  little  Leander  couldn't  understand  why  they  should 
take  our  company  twice  in  succession,  when  there  were  ten  companies 
in  the  regiment  and  they  only  wanted  six,  Greene  exclaimed :  "Why,, 
you  blank  fool,  it's  plain  enough ;  take  the  last  four,  and  commence  at 
the  head  again."  That  settled  it.  For  conciseness,  accuracy,  and  com 
prehensiveness,  that  statement  has  never  been  surpassed.  "There  was. 
nothing  more  to  be  said. 


Lafayette  Ploof  Cook 


C.  Capt.  Riley. 

Col.  Latim. 
J.  Renieur,  Orderly 


Qrm.  Eaeterbrook. 


COLONEL  LAFLIN'S  HEADQUARTERS  NEAR  FALMOUTH, 

VA.,  WINTER  '62-63 


CHAPTER    XI 


THE  BATTLE  OF  FREDERICKSBURG 

WE  come  to  the  morning  of  Dece'mber  IT.     At  midnight  before 
orders  had  arrived  to  be  ready  for  a  move  at  daybreak,  and 
we  were  ready.     While  we  are  eating  a  hasty  breakfast,  we 
hear  the  sound  of  cannon  from  the  direction  of  the  river.   We  know  the 
battle   is    on,    though   only 


joined 
of    our 

are     on     the     other 
of    the    river.      Soon 


the      artillery     is 
as    yet,    and    none 
men 
side 


we  are  moved  down  the 
valley,  and  up  back  of  the 
hills  and  Lacy  House. 
The  artillery  is  thundering 
from  all  the  heights.  But 
not  a  move  until  nightfall. 
One  man  wrote  home  at 
this  time :  "None  of  us  can 
ever  forget  that  artillery 
fight.  It  lasted  for  six 
hours.  Fredericksburg  was 
riddled.  A  pontoon  bridge 
is  in  course  of  construction 
in  front  of  the  city  on 
which  our  troops  may 
cross ;  but  the  rebs  don't 
relish  the  idea  of  seeing 
that  bridge  built  right 
under  their  noses,  and  the 
pontoon  builders  are  hav 
ing  a  red  hot  time.  As 
the  dusk  of  the  night 
gathers  down  we  are  ad 
vanced  toward  the  river; 
but  the  enemy  on  the 

heights  across  espy  the  move,  and  scour  the  plain,  over  which  we  are 
moving,  with  shot  and  shell.  But,  as  has  been  remarked  many  times 
before,  it  takes  a  pile  of  lead  and  iron  to  kill  a  man ;  and  so,  though  it 
rained  on  those  heights  as  it  once  rained  on  the  cities  on  the  plain, 
there  are  few  casualties,  notwithstanding  there  are  thousands  of  our 
troops  in  plain  view  of  the  rebel  batteries  on  the  opposite  side 
of  the  river.  Finally,  the  Seventh  Michigan,  in  boats,  crosses 
to  the  other  side,  and  cleans  the  rebs  out  of  the  houses  and  cellars  along 


CAPTAIN     WILLIAM     L.     OSWALD l86l 


8o  HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-FOURTH  REGIMENT 

the  ri.ver  front,  and  straightway  the  bridge  is  finished;  and  in  about 
the  same  time  it  takes  to  tell  it,  over  pour  the  troops,  horse  and  foot, 
into  Fredericksburg  town.  The  rebs  are  still  hanging  on,  in  some  parts 
of  the  town,  but  they  are  soon  cleaned  out. 

It  was  a  weird  sight  which  met  our  gaze  in  the  streets  of  the  city. 
By  the  light  of  burning  buildings,  thousands  of  men,  many  no  doubt, 
with  evil  intent,  made  their  way  about.  The  heavy  bombardment  had 
made  a  riddle  of  the  place.  Many  houses  were  shattered  to  pieces, 
and  their  contents  scattered  about  the  streets.  The  inhabitants  had  fled. 
In  one  of  the  houses  which  we  entered,  we  noticed  that  a  shell  had  come 
•down  through  the  roof  into  the  parlor,  and  exploded  in  the  piano.  The 
instrument  looked  as  if  it  needed  tuning.  Again  we  quote  what  we 
wrote  to  the  Mohawk  Courier  immediately  after  the  battle : 

"The  city  was  on  fire  in  numerous  places,  and  every  building  was  completely 
riddled  with  our  shells.  Piles  of  dead  were  lying  on  the  corners,  and  every  door 
step  was  a  tombstone  for  some  poor  soldier  who  slumbered  at  its  base.  The 
gutters  were  red,  and  groans  of  wounded  men  stifled  the  very  air.  It  was  a 
:scene  which  no  man  desires  to  behold  but  once." 

We  are  all  inclined,  after  forty-years'  interval,  to  take  a  somewhat 
rosy  view  of  those  far-off  events ;  but  that  is  what  we  wrote  at  the  very 
time ;  and  it  isn't  very  rosy ;  but  it's  true.  Of  course,  there  was  a  good 
deal  of  looting.  The  term  has  an  ugly  sound,  and  no  American  soldier 
likes  to  use  it.  But  we  are  talking  of  a  city  whose  inhabitants  had  fled  ; 
whose  property  was  strewn  through  all  the  streets,  the  wanton  waste 
and  desolation  and  spoil  of  war.  Many  of  the  houses,  some  of  the 
most  pretentious  in  the  city,  had  escaped  without  a  scratch ;  but,  of 
course,  they  did  not  escape  spoliation  by  the  victorious  soldiers. 

All  day  Friday,  the  I2th,  our  army  was  gathering  in  and  about  the 
city.  We  were  near  neighbors  to  a  watchful  enemy,  and  we  felt  the 
advance  shadow  of  what  was  impending.  Down  the  length  of  every 
street  frowned  a  dozen  rebel  guns.  It  is  a  queer  sensation,  living  in  a 
city  with  such  dangerous  neighbors,  and  so  many  of  them.  There  was 
a  second  night,  and  it  was  a  hot  night  in  the  old  town.  On  Saturday 
morning,  the  ball  opened  for  sure.  The  story  of  that  dreadful 
slaughter,  having  been  written  in  many  purple  testaments,  need  not  be 
repeated  here.  For  this  is  only  the  chronicle  of  one  little  regiment,  and 
nobody  will  look  to  it  for  a  comprehensive  description  of  what  has 
passed  into  lurid  history  as  the  Battle  of  Fredericksburg.  The  planless 
battle  began  just  in  the  edge  of  the  city,  and  near  where  we  were  lying. 
About  nine  o'clock  the  Thirty-fourth  advanced  to  a  position  where  the 
engagement  was  in  plain  sight,  and  there  it  stayed  until  some  time  in 
the  afternoon,  when  the  whole  brigade  advanced  up  one  of  the  streets 
running  at  right  angles  to  the  river,  and  filed  into  a  field  close  under  the 
bluff  occupied  by  the  rebels. 

Here,  again,  we  cannot  do  better  than  to  quote  what  we  wrote  to 
the  journal  above  referred  to  immediately  after  the  retreat: 

"We  suppose  there  were  seven  or  eight  thousand  men  massed  under  that 
bluff.  Perhaps  an  inscrutable  Providence  could  study  out  what  this  move  was 
for;  but  vour  correspondent  has  never  yet  heard  a  decent  theory  stated.  Scarcely 


I.    THE  ADAMS  HOUSE,  FAIR  OAKS,  TAKEN   FROM   IX    FRONT  OUR  BATTLE   LINE 
2.    LOOKING    DOWN    THE    VALLEY    TOWARD    FALMOUTH    FROM    OUR    CAMP    GROUND.       OLD 

WOODMAN     HOUSE     IN     THE     VIEW 
3.    THE    MAREY    MANSION,    MARYE    HEIGHTS,    BACK    OF    FREDERICKSBURG 


82  HISTORY   OF  THE   THIRTY-FOURTH    REGIMENT 

two  hundred  feet  away,  on  this  bluii',  was  a  rebel  redoubt  with  a  cannon  behind 
it.  An  officer  on  a  white  horse  was  riding  around  giving  orders.  You  may  be 
perfectly  certain  he  had  from  seven  to  ten  thousand  deeply  interested  spectators. 
Not  a  moment  elapsed  before  there  was  a  puff  of  smoke  from  behind  that  redoubt, 
and  a  shell  from  a  six-pounder  went  screaming  over  our  heads.  It  never  hit  a 
man.  Another  and  another  followed,  with  the  same  result.  It  was  evident 
that  the  piece  could  not  be  depressed  sufficiently  to  rake  us  without  the  muzzle 
hitting  the  front  of  the  redoubt.  Then  this  pale  horse  and  his  rider  came  out 
from  behind  the  redoubt,  and  surveyed  our  position,  and  went  back.  Then  four 
men  took  hold  of  the  piece,  and  rolled  it  out  from  behind  the  earthwork.  It  is 
said  the  judgment-day  comes  but  once,  and  we  all  felt  that  it  had  come  for  us 
right  then  and  there.  It  wras  a  moment  to  be  remembered  forever.  Now  they 
have  us  for  sure.  The  very  next  shot  is  sure  to  fetch  us.  Of  all  the  thousand's 
of  men  huddled  there,  every  eye  was  fixed  on  that  gun.  The  cannoneers  take 
their  positions,  the  process  of  loading  and  priming  is  gone  through  with,  and 
then  every  head  is  bowed  in  silence,  waiting  for  the  awful  messenger.  It  comes, 
like  the  shriek  of  an  incarnate  demon,  it  plowed  its  way  into  our  ranks,  burying 
us  all  in  the  dirt.  Another  and  another  followed  in  rapid  succession,  each  one 
bringing  death  and  destruction  into  our  ranks.  The  air  is  filled  with  the  groans 
and  cries  of  mangled  men.  Every  man  of  those  thousands  is  clutching  the 
earth,  and  trying  to  make  himself  thinner.  It  is  a  good  thing,  at  times,  to  be  a 
spare  man.  No  one,  then,  wanted  to  be  fatter.  The  first  shot  fired,  after  the 
gun  was  moved  out,  passed  directly  over  our  company  (K) ;  the  next,  coming  in 
exactly  the  same  line,  fell  a  little  short,  striking  just  ahead  of  us,  and  doing 
terrible  execution.  Then  the  orderly  sergeant,  Jim  Talcott,  lying  by  my  side, 
and  trying  to  make  himself  thinner,  said:  '  Now,  boys,  it's  our  turn.'  And  sure 
enough, with  an  ugly  scream,  that  might  have  been  heard  up  in  Herkimer County, 
the  next  shot  landed  squarely  in  our  company.  Every  inch  of  the  ground  was 
covered  with  blue  men;  but  this  ugly  auger  bored  a  hole  right  through.  Deep 
into  the  earth  it  went,  and  then  exploded.  Scarcely  a  man  in  the  company  but 
received  some  souvenir.  And  all  this  time  we  were  compelled  to  remain  inactive, 
not  firing  a  shot  in  return.  There  was  not  a  man  on  all  that  blue  field  but  would 
have  volunteered  in  an  instant  to  dash  up  that  height,  and  had  there  been  some 
one  in  high  authority  to  authorize  the  movement,  that  one  gun  wrould  have  been 
silenced  or  captured  in  a  moment.  But,  any  way,  the  slaughter  was  destined 
not  to  continue  for  long.  All  this  time,  from  the  north  side  of  the  river,  far 
away,  our  own  cannon  were  booming,  and  the  moment  this  one  piece  was  rolled 
out  from  behind  the  breastwork,  it  became  the  target  for  all  our  artillery.  There 
was  one  gun  on  our  side,  miles  up  the  river,  that  we  had  heard  booming  at 
intervals  all  day.  It  must  have  been  a  sixty-two  pounder;  and  a  moment  after 
the  third  shot  of  which  I  spoke  had  been  fired,  there  came  the  boom  of  this  great 
gun.  The  great  shot  sped  on  its  awful  mission,  over  miles  of  river  and  valley, 
and  hill  and  meadow,  and  came  down  fair  and  square  on  the  top  of  this  mis 
chievous  little  six-pounder,  and  that  instant  exploded.  The  gun  and  carriage 
were  destroyed,  and  all  the  men  near  it  knocked  out,  including  the  white  horse 
and  his  rider.  Then  all  those  ten  thousand  men  rose,  and  shouted  with  a  great 
shout." 

As  soon  as  we  could  pull  ourselves  together,  we  began  to  look  about, 
and  take  an  account  of  our  assets.  They  were  a  sorry  lot.  Poor  Adam 
Moyer;  he  had  but  just  arrived  from  the  north,  a  new  recruit.  This 
was  his  first  touch  of  fire.  Both  legs  were  torn  off,  hanging  only  by  the 
shreds.  How  short  he  looked,  as  we  laid  him  on  a  blanket,  with  the 
stumps  by  his  side.  And  little  Andrew  A.  Smith,  a  sweet-faced  boy, 
slender,  but  every  inch  a  man ;  a  leg  and  an  arm  both  gone.  Both  these 
died  in  a  little  while.  As  Andrew  was  being  carried  from  the  field  he 
said :  "Tell  my  mother  that  I  died  like  a  man."  It  is  strange  how  these 
boys  alwavs  think  of  their  mothers  at  such  a  time.  Like  the  boy  that 


l86l COLONEL    GEORGE    W.    THOMPSON 1903 

Our  First  Adjutant. 


84  HISTORY  OF   THE  THIRTY-FOURTH   REGIMENT 

was  wounded  back  at  Fair  Oaks,  and  was  taken  prisoner,  and  to  Rich 
mond.  All  the  long  days  he  pined  and  wasted  to  a  shadow,  and  died  at 
last,  though  he  had  but  a  little  wound,  crying  and  calling  "Mother, 
mother."  Poor  Andrew  Smith.  At  the  battle  of  White  Oak  Swamp, 
when  he  had  fallen  with  the  heat  and  exhaustion  of  the  march,  still  he 
would  not  give  up,  and  rose,  and  went  with  the  men  into  the  fight.  But 
now  his  time  had  come,  for  the  bone  was  driven  up  into  his  body.  And 
Corporal  John  Hurley,  of  Company  I,  dreadfully  killed.  And  what  a 
lot  of  maimed  men,  all  about  us.  Lieutenant  Ransom,  with  a  badly 
shattered  leg;  he  died  a  week  later.  And  Lieutenant  Finnegan  is  so 
badly  hurt,  he  has  seen  the  last  of  his  service  with  the  regiment. 
Orlando  Fosket,  with  a  leg  shot  off;  and  William  DeForest,  and 
Alexander  Comins,  both,  badly  in  the  legs. 

Other  regiments  around  us  suffered  as  much,  if  not  more,  than  the 
Thirty-fourth,  though  none  were  more  exposed.  The  battle  continued 
all  about  us  until  fairly  dark,  and  about  midnight  we  were  relieved  by 
the  Fourth  Regulars  of  Sykes'  brigade.  The  following  day,  Sunday, 
matters  were  comparatively  quiet;  likewise  Monday  the  5th.  Mon 
day  night,  near  eleven  o'clock,  we  were  suddenly  called  into  line,  and  to 
our  surprise,  were  marched  back  across  the  river,  and  two  hours  later 
were  in  our  old  camp.  Thus  ended  the  battle  of  Fredericksburg. 
Was  it  a  folly,  or  a  blunder?  Any  way,  it  was  a  butchery.  And  not 
one  good  thing  was  ever  known  to  come  of  it. 

Thirty-nine  years  after  these  events,  the  writer  of  this  chronicle 
went  back^  and  stood  on  that  same  spot,  on  that  same  field.  The  distance 
to  the  little  redout  seemed  just  the  same,  not  more  than  two  hundred 
feet  away,  scarcely  that.  Climbing  up  the  little  bluff,  and  poking  away 
the  briers  and  bushes  which  had  overgrown  the  place,  was  the  same 
earthwork.  The  rains  of.all  the  years  had  not  seemed  to  lower  it  a  foot. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  killed  at  Fredericksburg. 
On  account  of  the  severity  of  the  wounds,  nearly  all  of  them  proved 
fatal. 

Comins,  Alexander  H.— K.  Ransom,  First  Lieut   Albert  W.— D. 

Fosket,  Orlando— F.  Smith,  Andrew  A.— K. 

Hurley,  John  W.— I. 
Moyer,  Adam— K.  Total,  6. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  the  wounded : 

Dawson,  Richard— D.  Smith,  Horace  H.— K. 

DeForest,  William  H.— K.  Woods,  Thomas— B. 

Finnegan,  First  Sergt.  John— I.  Young,  Edward— E. 

Goodbread,  Jerome— B.  Woolver  Amos— K. 

Guile,  Cornelius— K.  Wright,  Ezra— H. 
McLean,  William  J.—C.  Total,   n. 


CHAPTER    XII 

WINTER  IN  CAMP.     SECOND  FREDERICKSBURG 

THE  winter  of  1862-63  was  one  of  great  severity  in  Virginia. 
The  army,  of  course,  could  not  escape  its  rigors.  While  in 
camp,  the  little  houses,  with  their  wooden  walls  and  their 
canvas  roofs,  and  their  little  fireplaces  within,  kept  the  men  in  toler 
able  comfort.  But  the  never-ending  exactions  of  picket  duty  on  the 
river  kept  the  men  exposed  to  the  bitter  vicissitudes  of  the  weather. 
War  bristled  all  along  shore.  When  bitter  was  the  cold,  and  inky 
black  the  night,  the  lonely  picket  on  the  banks  of  the  Rappahannock 
paced  his  beat,  and  kept  his  eye  peeled  on  the  opposite  shore. 

January  10,  1863,  was  a  good  day.  On  that  day  the  men  received  a 
lot  of  express  packages,  containing  goodies  from  the  friends  at  home. 
For  a  long  time  fresh  butter,  from  the  home  churnings,  sweetened  many 
a  hard  biscuit.  About  this  time  also  there  came  an  order  permitting 
furloughs  to  be  granted  for  trips  home.  This  was  most  acceptable; 
and  in  our  diary  covering  that  period  we  find  frequent  mentions  of 
officers  and  privates  being  absent  for  short  periods,  on  visits  home. 
But  later  there  was  trouble  over  this  very  thing.  It  was  reported  that 
certain  regiments,  among  them  the  Thirty-fourth,  were  not  as  scrupu 
lously  clean  and  orderly  about  camp  as  they  ought  to  be;  and  as  a 
punishment  for  the  same  they  were  to  be  deprived  of  furloughs.  This, 
being  reported  in  the  home  papers,  caused  sorrow  among  the  friends, 
as  well  as  the  members  of  the  regiment.  There  never  was  a  decent 
foundation  for  the  charge,  so  far  as  the  Thirty-fourth  was  concerned. 
An  immediate  and  thorough  inspection  was  requested  and  granted,  with 
the  result  of  a  full  vindication  for  the  regiment.  The  inspector-general 
wrote  it  down  that  "he  cheerfully  recommends  the  regiment  to  the 
restoration  of  all  the  privileges  granted  in  general  order  No.  3."  Thus 
was  the  country  saved  from  another  war,  and  officers  and  men  con 
sidered  that  they  were  more  entitled  to  furloughs  than  ever. 

On  January  19  Burnside  made  another  effort  to  do  something. 
He  got  us  all  in  motion  toward  United  States  Ford.  But  on  the  fol 
lowing  day  it  commenced  to  rain.  It  rained,  and  snowed,  and  froze, 
and  bio  wed,  and  there  was  no  such  thing  as  getting  on.  The  army  was 
stuck  in  the  mud.  The  rebels  on  the  other  side  of  the  river  heard  of 
our  predicament,  and  the  pickets  stuck  up  signs  big  enough  for  us  to 
read :  "  Burnside  Stuck  in  the  Mud."  Wretched  as  the  case  really  was, 
it  still  was  ludicrous.  For  some  time  afterward,  as  the  troops  thawed 
out,  they  might  be  seen  stealing  back  to  their  old  camps.  Richmond 
still  hung  on  the  horizon,  but  faintly  visible.  "  We  never  shall  see 
Carcasonne."  On  the  26th  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  said  good-by  to 
Burnside.  He  had  got  a  move  on  this  time  sure.  And  General  Joseph 
Hooker  was  announced  as  the  new  commander. 


86  HISTORY   OF   THE    THIRTY-FOURTH    REGIMENT 

On  January  22  occurred  the  resignation  of  the  regiment's  much 
beloved  commander,  Colonel  James  A.  Suiter.  This  was  a  change  that 
touched  the  men  much  more  deeply  than  the  change  in  the  commander  of 
the  whole  army.  About  this  time,  also,  we  find  Colonel  Turner  G. 
Morehead  of  the  One  Hundred  and  Sixth  Pennsylvania  in  command  of 
the  brigade,  during  the  temporary  absence  of  General  Sully.  Within 
the  narrow  confines  of  this  little  incident,  the  antiquarian  might  search 
successfully  for  the  cause  of  Colonel  Suiter's  resignation.  A  brave  and 
competent  officer,  who  had  served  his  country  conscientiously,  was  set 
aside  at  a  time  when  the  compliment  of  a  temporary  command  of  the 
brigade  might  have  been  handsomely  bestowed,  and  was  most  thor 
oughly  deserved.  The  following  is  the  text  of  Colonel  Suiter's  resig 
nation,  which  was  read  at  dress  parade,  and  was  received  with  genuine 
sorrow : 

HEADQUARTERS  COLONEL  THIRTY-FOURTH  REGIMENT, 

Near  Falmouth,  Va.,  January  26,   1863. 
To  the  Officers  and  Soldiers  of  the  Thirty-fourth  Regiment  N.   Y.   Vc,ls.: 

The  relations  which  have  so  long  existed  between  us  are  now  about  being 
dissolved.  My  resignation  of  the  colonelcy  of  the  Thirty-fourth  was  demanded 
by  a  sense  of  honor.  It  has  been  accepted,  and  I  am  about  to  bid  you  farewell, 
no  longer  having  the  honor  to  command  you.  Before  doing  so,  I  desire  to 
express  to  you  the  warmest  regard  and  affection  I  feel  for  you  all.  The  trials 
and  toils  we  have  endured,  the  privations  we  have  suffered,  the  weary  marches 
we  have  made,  the  terrible  battles  we  have  engaged  in,  have  all  tended  to  rivet 
the  bonds  that  unite  us.  Believe  that  my  affection  for  you  is  true  and  lasting. 
The  Thirty-fourth  has  won,  by  deeds  of  heroic  valor,  a  proud  name  and  renown. 
In  that  name  and  renown  I  rejoice  with  you.  It  is  ours  jointly,  and  will  be 
sacredly  guarded.  Let  me,  in  these  few  parting  words,  urge  you  to  guard  care 
fully  the  proud  distinction  the  Thirty-fourth  has  so  nobly  won.  Next  to  our 
beloved  country,  let  the  unstained  reputation  of  the  Thirty- fourth  be  the  chief 
object  of  your  guardian  care.  Be  ever  true  to  your  country  and  its  hallowed 
nag;  and  present  an  unbroken  front  to  those  who  would  trample  down  our 
•country's  blessed  institutions.  With  the  prayer  for  a  speedy  return  of  peace 
to  our  beloved  land,  and  the  overthrow  of  all  its  enemies,  I  commend  you  to 
the  God  of  all  battles,  and  bid  you  an  affectionate  farewell.  I  need  not  assure 
you  that  my  home  shall  ever  be  open  to  all  who  have  belonged  to  the  gallant 
Thirty-fourth.  God  bless  and  protect  you  all.  Farewell, 

JAMES  A.  SUITER. 

Lieutenant-Colonel  Byron  Laflin  now  succeeded  to  the  command 
of  the  regiment ;  Major  Beverly  became  lieutenant-colonel ;  and  Captain 
Wells  Sponable  became  major.  And  all  below  moved  up  a  peg. 

On  February  26  we  noted  "the  presence  in  camp  of  our  old  adjutant, 
George  W.  Thompson,  now  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  One  hundred  and 
fifty-second  New  York."  Colonel  Thompson  had  resigned  on  January 
28,  to  go  up  higher,  a  well-deserved  promotion.  Quite  a  number  of 
officers  had  resigned  at  various  times  to  go  up  higher ;  for  the  Thirty- 
fourth  was  a  sort  of  recruiting  camp.  September  20,  1862,  our  old 
chaplain,  Rev.  J.  B.  Van  Petten,  had  resigned  for  promotion ;  and  in  the 
official  reports,  since  published,  we  find  his  record :  "  Subsequent  service 
as  lieutenant-colonel  One  hundred  and  Sixtieth  New  York  Volunteers, 
and  colonel  One  hundred  and  ninetv-third  Volunteers."  As  will  be  seen 


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by  the  biographical  sketch  published  elsewhere,  our  first  colonel,  Wm. 
Ladew,  had  not  gone  home  to  have  an  easy  time.  But  was  busy  at 
'^the  front,"  the^  front  having  shifted  at  various  times  to  New  York 
City.  We  also  find  entries  through  these  long  winter  months  of  visits 
from  prominent  citizens  at  home.  Hon.  S.  M.  Richmond,  of  Little 
Falls,  looked  in  upon  us ;  as  did  also  Hon.  D.  A.  Northup,  of  Salisbury, 
father  of  the  popular  young  Captain  Northup,  of  Company  K. 

Another  item  deserves  reference  at  this  time.  The  New  York 
Herald  was  probably  more  widely  read  throughout  the  army  than  any 
other  newspaper ;  and  yet  its  utterances  were  most  vicious.  In  a  letter, 
dated  January  10,  we  had  this  to  say  about  that  sheet : 

"There  is  no  paper  so  much  read  by  the  soldiers  as  the  New  York  Herald, 
and  yet  there  is  no  reading  that  so  much  tends  to  discourage  and  demoralize  the 
soldiers.  From  it  we  are  led  to  believe  that  in  the  world  around  us  there  is  noth 
ing  transpiring  favorable  to  our  cause;  every  battle  is  a  defeat  and  every  general 
a  failure ;  the  whole  body  politic  at  Washington  is  nothing  but  a  nest  of  traitors 
slavery  is  a  blessing,  and  Horace  Greeley  a  curse;  McClellan  is  a  little  god,  and 
General  Fremont  a  nobody;  Burnside  is  an  imbecile,  and  the  only  way  of  crush 
ing  the  rebellion  is  by  starving  it  otit,  etc.  It  would  be  a  blessing'to  the  country, 
and  set  the  advent  of  peace  years  ahead,  could  its  publication  be  suppressed."'  ' 


'apt.  Warford 

Capt.  Kiley 

LIEUT. -COL.  BEVERLY'S  HEADQUARTERS  NEAR  FALMOUTH,  VA.,  APRIL  24,  1863 


88  HISTORY   OF   THE  THIRTY-FOURTH    REGIMENT 

That  is  what  we  wrote  January  10,  and  on  February  26,  following,, 
we  had  thankful  occasion  for  writing  this  : 

"The  New  York  Herald,  whose  circulation,  with  many  others  of  a  like 
character,  has  at  last,  thank  heaven,  been  prohibited  in  this  army,  will  probably 
keep  up  a  huge  cry.  All  credit  to  Caesar,  whoever  he  may  be,  for  the  suppression 
of  the  New  York' Herald  in  these  parts.  Hereafter  we  shall  look  for  something 
accomplished,  and  to  see  victory  acknowledged  when  it  has  been  gloriously  won. " 

March  5,  grand  review  by  Hooker.  This  was  an  imposing  event ; 
but  still  not  so  overpoweringly  grand  as  the  review  later  on,  when  Mr. 
Lincoln  visited  the  army.  March  17,  heavy  cannonading  off  to  the 
right.  Supposed  to  be  a  rebel  raid.  On  the  2ist  the  same  thing  over 
on  the  left.  Supposed  to  be  another  raid.  We  were  always  hearing 
about  these  raids ;  but,  like  the  old  darkey's  trouble,  "  the  most  of  it 
never  happened."  Occasionally,  we  get  a  peep  at  the  sun.  It's  genial 
warmth  steals  along  that  densely-peopled  height,  bringing  joy  and  glad 
ness.  No  friend  was  ever  more  welcome.  Homesickness  vanished 
beneath  that  gentle  touch,  and  lots  of  other  troubles.  Every  sort  of 
thing  is  resorted  to  by  the  men,  when  they  have  an  idle  hour,  to  keep' 
themselves  in  spirits.  Strangely  enough,  baseball  with  the  men  of 
the  Fifteenth  Massachusetts,  was  one  of  the  popular  pastimes.  In  those 
days  the  game  was  not  played  as  in  these  scientific  times.  The  ball  was 
a  soft  one,  and  you  plugged  a  man  with  it  to  put  him  out.  Then,  as 
now,  it  was  a  great  sport.  The  pickets  on  the  opposite  sides  of  the 
river  also  relaxed  their  awful  severity,  although  it  was  strictly 
"  against  orders."  Little  cornstalk  boats  would  be  floated  with 
messages  of  friendly  interest.  There  is  no  mistake  about  it,  "  visiting  " 
of  this  kind  is  the  most  delicious  diversion  in  the  world.  It  took  dread 
fully  stern  orders  to  stop  it.  The  men  would  be  at  it  every  chance  they 
got.  And  more  than  one  commissioned  officer  even  lost  his  shoulder 
straps  because  he  could  not  resist  the  temptation  any  more  than  the 
common  privates,  to  indulge  in  this  surreptitious  pleasure.  Think  of 
these  men,  summoned  together  to  shoot  each  other  down,  clasping 
friendly  hands  across  that  river  every  time  they  could  do  it  and  not  get 
caught.  Here,  as  on  the  Potomac  a  year  before,  there  was  the  swap 
ping  of  commodities,  coffee,  tobacco,  newspapers,  etc. 

In  spite  of  the  reform  in  the  weather,  we  find  recorded,  March  21  : 
"  More  snow ;"  and  on  the  3ist :  "  Still  snowing."  On  April  I  General 
O.  O.  Howard  leaves  the  division  to  take  command  of  the  Eleventh 
Corps,  and  General  John  Gibbon,  succeeds  him.  Of  course,  General 
Gibbon  had  to  have  his  Grand  Review,  like  all  the  other  generals,  and  so 
he  looks  us  over  two  days  later.  He  seems  to  like  our  appearance,  and 
scatters  around  a  number  of  compliments  where  the  men  can  pick 
them  up. 

But  you  should  have  been  there  to  see  the  Grand  Review,  April  8, 
when  the  President  and  his  family — his  very  own  family — and  his 
official  family  likewise,  were  there.  Up  by  the  Lacy  House,  overlook 
ing  the  city  of  Fredericksburg,  is  a  great  plateau ;  and  here  the  review 
was  held ;  "or  rather,  we  should  say,  the  series  of  reviews.  One  day  it 


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89 


was  all  the  cav 
alry,  under  General 
Stoneman,  and  an 
other  day,  perhaps 
the  artillery ;  but 
on  the  8th  it  was 
the  infantry,  our 
corps,  the  grand 
old  Second,  and 
the  Thirty-fourth 
was  just  in  it. 

^  April  5,  a 
series  of  resolu 
tions  was  adopted 
on  the  occasion  of 
the  departure  of 
our  much-loved 
surgeon,  Dr.  S.  N. 
Sherman,  who  had 
also  been  called  to 
come  up  higher.  He 
had  been  a  p- 
pointed  Medical 
Director  at  Nor 
folk,  and  his  new 
duties  took  him  to 
the  new  field.  Dr. 
Bradford  S. 
Manly,  who  had 
joined  the  regi 
ment  as  assistant 
surgeon  the  pre 
vious  August,  now 
became  the  surgeon,  and  we  find  his  commission  dated  a  month  later. 
Dr.  Edward  S.  Walker,  who  had  been  the  first  assistant  surgeon,  had 
resigned  November  3,  preceding,  and  gone  home.  He  was  succeeded 
by  Dr.  J.  Hervy  Miller.  Manly  and  Miller  thus  remained  our  surgeon 
and  assistant  till  the  muster  out. 

Along  about  April  20  came  the  ever-welcome  Paymaster  King, 
this  time  doubly  welcome,  for  he  was  to  bring  us  four  months'  pay. 
Another  matter  of  importance  claims  attention  just  here.  All  through 
the  winter  certain  companies  had  been  nursing  the  hope  the  authorities 
would  consider  that  their  term  of  service  expired  on  May  i.  No  doubt 
the  great  severity  of  the  winter,  and  the  arduous  duties  and  sufferings 
of  the  men,  gave  emphasis  to  this  hope.  It  is  no  wonder,  therefore,  that 
when  the  first  of  May  came  round,  there  should  have  been  a  little 
trouble.  Many  of  the 'men  who  were  in  the  regiment  at  the  first, 
unlisted  in  April,  1861,  to  serve  two  years.  So  read  all  their  enlistment 


THE    COLORS 1862 


HISTORY  OF   THE   THIRTY-FOURTH   REGIMENT 


papers.  The  official  record  clearly  reads  that  they  were  mustered 
into  the  state  service  May  i,  i86i/to  serve  two  years.  On  June  15, 
following,  they  were  mustered  into  the  United  States  service  to  serve 
two  years.  It  is  but  natural  that  these  men  should  think  that  their  time 
was  out  May  i,  1863,  for  they  had  served  the  full  two  years.  But  the 
authorities  did  not  so  regard  it.  June  15  was  their  date.  A  few  of  the 
men  stood  out,  claiming  their  time  had  expired.  They  were  put  under 
guard  in  camp,  surrounded  by  a  detail  of  the  Fifteenth  Massachusetts. 
A  large  detail  from  the  regiment,  among  whom  was  the  writer,  came 
into  camp  on  the  forenoon  of  May  i,  and  were  greatly  surprised  to  find 
things  somewhat  upset.  During  the  day,  however,  General  Gibbon, 
in  command  of  the  division,  came  over  and  addressed  the  men,  advising 
them  to  make  no  resistance,  but  to  return  to  duty,  which  they  consented 
to  do,  and  the  trouble  was  over.  We  think  every  candid  mind  must 
admit  that  the  men  had  a  fairly  good  case.  Some  of  these  men  had 
enlisted  immediately  after  President  Lincoln's  call  was  issued,  April  15, 
1 86 1,  and  as  the  regiment  was  not  mustered  out  till  June  30,  1863,  they 
were  really  in  the  service  two  years,  two  and  a  half  months. 

But  this  little  incident  proved  a  bothersome  thing  to  General 
Alfred  Sully,  who  had  returned,  and  was  in  command  of  the  brigade. 
He  reported  to  General  Gibbon,  very  foolishly,  that  "  it  was  not  in  his 
power  to  enforce  discipline  in  his  command ;"  whereupon  General  Gib- 
born  immediately  relieved  him.  It  was  shown  afterward,  by  a  court  of 
inquiry,  that  his  order  relieving  General  Sully  was  a  little  previous, 
and  not  exactly  justified  by  the  facts ;  but  General  Sully  did  not  return ; 

but    was    sent   west   to   fight   the 
Indians. 

But  the  spring  had  opened, 
and  there  was  a  stir  underground 
and  above  it.  As  early  as  April 
28,  we  began  to  notice  large  bodies 
of  Union  troops  moving  to  our 
right.  They  were  the  Fifth, 
Eleventh,  and  Twelfth  Corps  of 
the  army,  making  the  initial 
moves  for  a  position  on  the  -south 
side  of  the  Rappahannock.  The 
First  and  Third  Divisions  of  our 
Corps,  the  Second,  also  disap 
peared  up  the  river;  but  the 
Second  Division,  in  which  was  the 
Thirty-fourth,  did  not  move  until 
the  night  of  May  2.  All  day  on 
the  ist  the  air  was  full  of  the 
thunder  of  artillery.  It  came  from 
the  direction  of  Chancellorsville. 
_^^^^^^^^  Late  on  the  night  of  the  2d,  the 
••••  Thirty-fourth,  with  the  rest  of  the 
LIEUTENANT  JOHN  OATHOUT — 1863  Division,  proceeded  to  the  heights 


WINTER  IN  CAMP  91 

opposite  Fredericksburg,  where  we  had  lain  at 
the  time  of  the  first  crossing  in  December.  Along 
in  the  middle  of  the  night  there  comes  a  call  for 
a  lieutenant  and  twenty-five  men,  to  go  to  the 
river  for  a  storming  party.  Now  almost  any 
man  with 'an  able-bodied  imagination  can  under 
stand  what  kind  of  duty  is  expected  of  men 
under  such  circumstances.  Such  a  call  means 
business.  And  yet  it  did  not  take  five  minutes 
to  obtain  all  the  men  wanted.  Lieutenant  James 
McCormick,  of  Company  H,  was  the  lieutenant. 
Colonel  Byron  Laflin,  of  the  Thirty-fourth,  is 
now  in  temporary  command  of  the  brigade,  and 

GEN.  ALFRED  SULLY — i862Lieutenant-Colonel    Beverly,    of    the    regiment. 
Colonel  Laflin,  in  his  official  report,  says:  "One 

hundred  volunteers  were  wanted  from  the  brigade,  to  cross  the  river 
as  a  storming  party,  to  dislodge  the  enemy  in  the  town.  The  call  was 
immediately  and  cheerfully  responded  to  by  25  men  from  each  of  the 
four  regiments  in  the  brigade.  Of  the  25  volunteers  of  the  Thirty- 
fourth  Regiment,  18  were  among  the  number  reported  as  unwilling 
to  serve  longer  than  the  first  of  May." 

We  think  it  is  thus  clearly  shown  that  the  handful  of  men,  who,, 
only  the  day  before,  had  raised  an  honest  point  of  order  in  regard  to  the 
date  of  their  service,  were  not  cowards.  Although  they  were  so  soon 
to  return  home,  they  were  ready  for  any  service,  however  dangerous. 
Some  people  would  be  very  much  surprised  at  the  quality  and  kind  of 
men  who  will  volunteer  to  face  a  danger  of  this  kind.  Who  could,  by 
sight,  pick  out  the  heroes  in  a  regiment  ?  Would  you  pick  the  men  who 
look  the  finest,  bear  themselves  the  proudest,  have  the  most  distin 
guished  relations  at  home?  It  is  fair  and  true  to  say,  that,  if  you 
figured  it  in  that  way,  you  would  miss  it.  The  men  who  volunteered 
on  this  occasion  were,  many  of  them,  the  very  humblest  men  in  the  regi 
ment  ;  men  who  \vere  not  after  distinction,  or  commissions,  or  glory. 
They  were  just  the  common  men.  It  did  not  seem  to  them  that  there 
was  any  special  courage  displayed  in  their  action.  They  were  wanted 
for  some  important  duty,  and  out  they  stepped.  It  is  probable  that  the 
whole  regiment  would  have  volunteered  if  there  had  been  any  call  for 
it.  But  fortunately,  as  it  turned  out,  those  who  did  volunteer  did  not 
suffer  for  it.  The  bridge  was  completed  without  opposition,  and  on  the 
following  morning  we  crossed  at  the  same  familiar  point,  and  again 
entered  the  ill-fated  city. 

The  enemy  had  been  a  good  deal  fuddled  over  this  dividing  of  the 
Union  army,  and  heavy  operating  on  both  wings ;  but  Lee  was  not  to 
be  caught  napping,  and  had  a  good  strong  force  in  and  about  Fredericks- 
burg,  ready  for  whatever  might  happen.  And  so  all  these  movements 
on  our  part  were  conducted  under  a  heavy  fire  from  the  rebel  artillerv, 
posted  on  the  heights  back  of  the  city.  \Yhile  there  was  some  damage 
done,  none  of  the  Thirty-fourth  men  were  hit.  Not  so  fortunately  fared 


92  HISTORY   OF   THE    THIRTY-FOURTH   REGIMENT 

all  the  other  bodies.  As  the  morning  dawned,  fair  and  bright,  a  brass 
band,  belonging  to  one  of  the  regiments,  went  marching  gaily  down 
from  the  Lacy  House,  playing  a  stirring  air,  intending  to  cross  at  the 
pontoon  bridge,  when  a  shell  from  a  rebel  battery  exploded  in  their 
midst.  It  broke  up  the  band  right  then  and  there.  Long  years  after 
ward,  an  officer  of  the  regiment  to  which  the  band  belonged,  told  the 
writer  that  the  shell  went  right  through  the  head  of  the  bass  drum. 
There  was  a  good  deal  of  maneuvering  about  during  the  forenoon. 
We  finally  drew  out  of  the  city  to  the  west,  the  Thirty-fourth  leading 
the  column.  Our  movement  was  along  the  river,  with  a  wide  plain 
between  us  and  the  rebel  lines.  Across  this  meadow  from  where  it  tapped 
the  river  above  a  wide  hydraulic  canal.  As  our  movement  was 
perceived,  a  column  of  rebel  infantry  moved  westward  from  its  side,  the 
column  keeping  parallel  with  ours.  The  canal  flowed  between.  It  was 
a  strange  sight,  those  men  in  gray,  and  those  men  in  blue,  in  parallel 
moving  columns ;  and  only  a  little  distance  apart.  Not  a  shot  was  fired 
on  either  side.  But  over  us,  and  all  around  us,  screamed  and  burst  the 
rebel  shells.  Between  those  two  lines,  eyeing  each  other  like  cats,  each 
ready  for  a  spring,  was  the  grave  of  Washington's  mother.  Not  now  as 
in  '76,  are  the  North  and  the  South  banded  together  against  a  common 
foe;  but  facing  each  other  as  enemies,  and  with  deadly  intent.  Have 
we  any  quarrel  with  these  men?  None  whatever.  But  a  short  time 
ago  we  were  fraternizing  with  them  across  the  river.  We  thought 
they  were  splendid  fellows;  and  so  they  are.  Why  now  do  we  thus 
menace  each  other?  One  single  note  of  alarm  from  either  side  would 
set  both  those  columns  on  fire  in  an  instant ;  would  cause  that  thin,  gray 
line  to  melt,  and  this  blue  one,  too.  But  that  single  note  is  never 
sounded.  Slowly  the  lines  creep  forward,  each  still  watching  every 
movement  of  the  other.  Not  a  gun  is  fired ;  only  the  artillery  being  too 
far  away  to  feel  the  suppression  of  the  painful  suspense,  keeps  on  with 
its  booming;  and  men  behind  us,  in  other  regiments,  are  falling;  for 
every  shot  finds  a  place  where  it  can  break  through  the  ranks.  Then 
the  thin  lines  creep  back  again,  back,  into  the  city,  and  the  movement  is 
over.  But  now  it  transpires  that  while  we  are  thus  drawing  the  enemy 
away  from  the  center  to  weaken  it,  another  portion  of  the  army  has 
broken  through  the  rebel  lines,  and  is  occupying  all  their  heights.  And 
this  was  Sedgwick's  plan.  Though  we  did  not  fire  a  shot,  we  were  help 
ing  in  the  battle  just  the  same.  Now  we  pass  out  upon  the  heights  our 
selves,  south  of  the  city.  Through  avenues  of  the  dead  and  dying  we 
pass.  Here  are  a  lot  of  cannon  that  could  not  get  away  in  time.  Our 
men  were  too  quick  for  them.  And  here  are  a  lot  of  prisoners.  On 
close  acquaintance,  a  rebel  looks  much  like  any  other  man.  Out  on  the 
far  heights  we  go,  till  the  view  north  and  south  of  the  river  is  most 
noble  and  commanding.  Night  comes  down,  and  in  the  gathering  dusk 
we  pass  the  One  hundred  and  twenty-first  New  York,  which  has  been 
gathering  glory  at  Salem  Church.  There  is  just  time  for  a  hand  clasp 
with  a  brother  in  that  other  regiment,  and  to  make  eager  inquiries  for 
the  living  and  the  dead.  Then  there  is  a  halt ;  an  ominous  one.  Then 
about  we  face,  and  back  we  go,  through  the  city;  yes,  and  over  the 


WINTER  IN  CAMP 


93 


bridge,  and  up  the  Heights  to  the  Lacy  House ;  and  back  of  the  Lacy 
House,  where  we  halt  and  stay.  The  army  is  all  streaming  back  over 
the  river.  The  battle  of  Chancellorsville,  Fredericksburg,  Salem 
Church,  or  whatever  else  you  choose  to  call  it,  according  to  the  place 

you  happened  to  occupy,  is 
over;  and  so  ends  the  second 
attempt  of  the  Army  of  the 
Potomac  to  get  to  Richmond 
by  this  route. 

There  are  no  lists  of  killed 
and  wounded,  or  missing,  nor 
any  casualties,  in  the  Thirty- 
fourth  in  this  engagement.  Such 
are  the  fortunes  of  battle.  A 
regiment  might  be  placed  in  a 
most  dangerous  position,  and 
still  have  no  losses ;  and  then, 
in  a  moment,  it  might  become 
the  focus  for  a  most  deadly 
fire,  and  have  enormous  losses 
in  just  a  few  moments.  Every 
regiment  has  to  take  what 
comes.  Never  for  a  single 
moment  can  it  determine  what 
its  fortunes  will  be.  There  is 
no  use  waving  a  flag  of  glorv 
over  the  great  losses  of  one 
regiment,  and  then  pointing 
with  disdain  to  the  small  losses 
of  another  regiment.  The  cour- 
CAPTAIN  BENJAMIN  H.  wARFORD — 1863  age  and  stamina  of  the  different 

regiments      probably      averaged 

about  the  same.  Each  went  where  it  was  sent,  and  took  what  came 
when  it  got  there.  The  focus  of  greatest  danger  was  constantly  shift 
ing,  and  there  was  no  telling  where  it  might  turn  up  next. 

This  time  we  do  not  go  back  to  our  "old  camp  ground;"  but  to 
a  new  site  back  of,  and  just  north  of,  the  Lacy  House.  Here  we  are 
to  remain  until  our  final  move,  which  will  be  toward  home.  Only  a  few 
steps  from  our  new  camp  brought  us  in  full  view  of  the  pretty  little 
city  lying  along  the  river  on  the  opposite  side;  the  most  conspicuous 
feature  of  which  was  always  the  house  on  Marye's  Heights,  with  its 
colonial,  columned  front.  The  comrades  will  recognize  it  in  the  pic 
ture  we  give.  In  spite  of  its  being  so  many  times  at  the  focus  of  the 
fire,  the  present  occupant  told  the  writer,  at  the  time  he  took  this 
picture,  that  it  bore  but  one  wound,  and  that  a  trifling  one. 


CHAPTER    XIII 


GOING  HOME 

BUT  it  was  written  in  "  the  purple  testament  of  bleeding  war,''  that 
the  righting  days   of  the  Thirty-fourth  were  over.      While   ii 
number  of  officers  and  some  privates  had  been  home  on  fur 
lough,  yet,  of  course,  sick  or  well,  by  far  the  greater  number  had  not 

seen  home  in  the  more 
than  two  years  since 
they  left  it.  And  so  now 
all  thoughts  turned  that 
way  with  a  great  long 
ing.  The  three-years1 
men,  recruits  in  the  regi 
ment,  were  transferred 
to  other  regiments. 
Some  of  these  went  to 
the  Eighty-second  New 
York.  Here  we  find  the 
two  Wolvers,  and  Ezra 
Wright,  the  former  of 
Company  K,  and  the  lat 
ter  of  Company  H.  A 
e^ood  many  men  had 
been  transferred  to  other 
branches  of  the  service, 
at  different  times.  On 
February  17,  1862, there 
had  been  a  call  for  volun 
teers  for  the  Western 
Gunboat  Flotilla ;  and 
all  these  men  were  lost 
sight  of  at  the  final  mus 
ter  out,  in  Albany. 

But  we  must  not  be 
too  fast.    We  are  not  off 

for  home  yet.  About  the  first  of  June  there  was  some  kind  of  a  move 
ment  perceptible  among  the  enemy  over  on  the  heights.  And  still  the 
grand  reviews  keep  up.  May  23  there  was  a  brigade  review ;  May  27  a 
battalion  drill ;  May  28  another  brigade  review ;  May  29,  though  hot  and 
dusty,  a  division  review,  by  Major-General  Hancock.  June  5,  Colonel 
Ward,  commanding  the  Fifteenth  Massachusetts  lying  next  to  the 
Thirty-fourth,  wrote  in  his  diary :  "This  morning  we  discovered  the 
rebel  camps  to  be  evacuated,  and  everything  seemed  to  indicate  that 
they  were  off.  This  afternoon  our  troops  commenced  crossing. 
Sedgwick's  corps  began  crossing  about  dark." 


ADJUTANT    JOHN    KIRK 186; 


GOING  HOME 


95 


Finally,  June  9,  this  same  officer  wrote  in  his  diary :  "This  morn 
ing  the  New  York  Thirty-fourth  left  for  home,  their  term  of  service 
having  expired.  It  seemed  like  losing  a  friend,  for  they  had  been  with 
us  over  twenty  months."  And  it  was  even  so.  The  Thirty-fourth  was 
off  for  home.  And  even  as  we  started,  began  that  northward  move 
ment  of  the  northern  and  southern  armies,  which  was  to  terminate  so 
eventfully  at  Gettysburg,  a  month  later. 

But  we  must  not  drop  the  war  part  of  this  brief  narrative  without 
at  least  one  little  glance  at  the  future.  The  "Herkimer  County  Regi 
ment"  has  struck  its  tents  for  the  last  march,  and  that  march  is  toward 
home.  Now  its  arms  are 
stacked ;  its  flag  is  furled ;  its 
fighting  days  are  over.  But 
it  is  suggestive  to  take  a  very 
brief  glance  ahead.  Within 
three  weeks  from  the  time  we 
left  our  last  camp  occurred — 
Gettysburg.  What  would 
have  been  our  fate  had  our 
term  of  enlistment  expired  a 
month  later?  If  you  go  down 
to  Gettysburg,  and  stand  in 
front  of  the  great  bronze 
which  indicates  the 
High  Water  Mark  of  the 
Rebellion,"  you  will  find  your 
self  standing  very  nearly 
w  here  the  Thirty-fourth 
would  have  stood  had  it  been 
present  at  that  engagement. 
Just  beyond,  along  the 
avenue,  which  is  now  more 
frequently  thronged  than  any 
other  on  that  great  historic 
field,  are  the  markers,  which 
indicate  where  the  brigade 
stood  on  that  eventful  third 
day  of  the  battle,  when 

Pickett's  Division  emerged  from  yonder  woods,  and  made  its  auda 
cious  march  across  these  level  fields.  How  brief  appear  the  lines 
which  mark  the  standing  ground  of  whole  regiments.  Near  the 
Emmettsburg  road,  it  was  that  Hancock,  the  Superb,  on  the  second 
day,  dashed  up  to  the  line,  demanding,  in  his  imperious  way,  "What 
regiment  is  this?"  in  the  same  instant  ordering  the  First  Min 
nesota  to  assault  the  advancing  column  of  the  enemy,  now  nearing  the 
"clump  of  trees."  And  here,  in  no  more  time  than  it  takes  to  write 
these  lines,  the  grand  old  regiment  lost  eighty-five  per  cent,  of  all  its 
men  ;  all  our  old  friends  and  comrades  in  that  regiment  going  down 


SURGEOX     SOCRATES    X.     SHERMAN— 186 1 


96  HISTORY  OF   THE   THITY-FOURTH    REGIMENT 

with  the  rest.  Was  it  for  this  that/the  First  Minnesota  was  being 
saved  up  at  the  Battle  of  AnUctamf  where  it  scarcely  lost  a  man?  It 
was  here,  at  this  Battle  of  Gettysburg,  that  the  Eighty-second  New 
York  captured  five  stand  of  colors.  It  was  here  that  the  men  of  the 
Nineteenth  Maine,  and  all  the  other  regiments  of  the  brigade,  covered 
themselves  with  glory.  And  it  is  here,  without  a  doubt,  that  the 
Thirty- fourth  New  York  would  have,  left  the  most  of  all  that  was  left, 
had  its  term  of  enlistment  expired  three  weeks  later.  For,  as  all  the 
world  knows,  it  was  the  Second  Division,  of  the  Second  Corps,  that  re 
ceived  into  its  breast  the  heaviest  blows,  and  the  deadliest  wounds  in 
flicted  by  the  desperate  enemy.  Many  years  after,  the  writer  of  this 
went  down  to  Gettysburg  in  company  with  a  comrade  of  the  Twen 
tieth  Massachusetts.  This  comrade  searched  the  whole  field  long  and 
unavailingly  for  some  trace  of  his  regiment.  The  next  day  he  in 
formed  me  sadly  that  he  had  found  it  at  last.  It  was  encamped 
under  the  trees,  in  the  beautiful  National  Cemetery.  And  that  is  where 
the  Thirty-fourth  would  be  to-day,  had  it  been  in  the  service  only  a 
little  longer.  But  notwithstanding  all  this,  we  venture  to  say  that  there 
is  not  a  comrade  of  the  Thirty-fourth  now  living  who  does  not  regret 
that  we  were  not  in  that  battle. 

The  journey  home  was  a.  joyful,  but  an  uneventful  one.  To  Wash 
ington  ;  thence  to  Philadelphia ;  where  we  were  most  handsomely  treated 
by  the  ladies  of  Philadelphia  in  the  famous  Coopershop  Restaurant, 
where  all  the  regiments  passing  north  and  south  were  most  bountifully 
fed ;  thence  to  New  York,  and  thence  to  Albany.  Arriving  at  the 
Capital  city,  June  12,  without  notable  incident,  we  again  put  up  at  the 
same  quarters  from  which  we  had  departed  on  the  3d  of  July,  1861, 
namely  the  Industrial  School  Barracks.  Here  the  regiment  was  met 
by  a  delegation  from  Little  Falls,  headed  by  Hon.  Judge  Hardin,  who, 
until  his  very  recent  death,  just  as  we  were  considering,  at  his  urgent 
instigation,  our  monument  enterprise,  had  ever  remained  the  steadfast 
friend  of  the  memory  of  the  regiment.  This  delegation  had  come  down 
to  tender  us  a  grand  reception  at  Little  Falls,  and  to  make  the  necessary 
arrangements.  These  were  soon  completed.  Immediately  on  arriving 
in  Albany,  and  once  at  liberty,  the  men,  scorning  the  hard  tack  of  the 
government  ration,  proceeded  to  distribute  themselves  around  among 
the  boarding  houses  and  hotels  of  the  city,  and  to  provide  themselves 
with  citizen's  clothing.  The  photograph  galleries  were  greatly  over 
worked  by  both  men  and  officers.  Nine-tenths  of  all  the  old  portraits 
presented  in  this  volume  were  taken  at  the  Albany  galleries  during 
these  first  days  home. 

Now  each  of  the  various  companies,  as  it  returned  to  its  native 
county,  was  given  an  enthusiastic  reception  by  the  citizens.  There 
was  as  great  an  output  of  oratory  as  there  had  been  two  years  before. 
We  should  be  glad  enough,  were  we  able  to  describe  each  of  these  re 
ceptions  in  detail.  We  know  that  Colonel  Laflin  went  up  to  West 
Troy,  and  took  part  in  the  exercises  attending  the  reception  accorded 
to  Co.  A.  Captain  Oswald,  who  had  nreviouslv  returned  home,  man- 


GOING  HOMK  97 

aged  the  whole  affair.  The  following  autumn  the  citizens  of  that  dis 
trict  sent  the  Captain  to  the  lower  branch  of  the  legislature.  Later  the 
citizens  of  Steuben  County  treated  Captain  Brundage  in  the  same  way. 
But  it  was  at  Little  Falls  that  the  "Herkimer  County  Regiment"  was 
accorded  a  glorious  welcome  home. 

Saturday,  the  27th  of  June,  was  a  great  day  in  the  annals  of  Little 
Falls,  and  a  great  day  for  the  old  regiment.  People  had  assembled 
from  all  parts  of  the  county,  and  from  the  other  counties  represented  in 
the  regiment,  from  Albany,  Essex,  Clinton,  and  Steuben.  The 
weather  proved  fine,  and  that  increased  the  turnout.  The  regiment  left 
Albany  by  an  early  train,  and  reached  Little  Falls  about  ten  o'clock. 
Eastern  Park,  in  the  old  town,  now  a  city,  was  the  headquarters  for  the 
gathering.  Here  the  speeches  were  delivered,  the  songs  sung,  the  wel 
comes  delivered,  and  the  feasting  done  to  a  finish.  Then  there  was  a 
great  parade,  through  the  principal  streets  on  both  sides  of  the  river. 
It  could  not  be  said  to  be  a  parade  of  the  greatest  military  precision. 
Every  man,  woman,  and  child,  who  had  a  friend  in  the  regiment,  and 
who  didn't?  considered  it  his  unspeakable  privilege  to  march  beside 
him.  It  was  a  proud  day  for  the  youngsters,  and  for  the  best  girls, 
and  they  were  all  there,  to  take  advantage  of  it.  The  first  regiment 
out  to  service,  and  the  first  regiment  home,  did  surely  have  a  most  royal 
welcome.  Those  whose  engagements  compelled  them  to  be  absent,  and 
there  were  many  such,  were  bitter  over  their  misfortune. 

Toward  evening  the  regiment  returned  to  Albany,  and  on  June  30, 
two  years  and  two  months  from  the  time  of  muster  into  the  State  ser 
vice,  the  regiment  was  mustered  out.  Thus  passed  into  honorable  his 
tory  one  of  the  noblest,  bravest,  and  most  patriotic  of  the  volunteer  regi 
ments  which  the  great  Empire  State  furnished  for  the  War  of  the  Re 
bellion. 


Its  arms  are  stacked,  its  flag  is  furled, 

Its  fighting  days  are  over, 
But  some  we  never  shall  forget, 
Far  in  the  southland  linger  yet. 
They  come  not,  heed  not  song  or  shout. 
Nor  answer  at  the  muster  out; 

Their  days  on  earth  are  over. 

Their  lives  are  now  a  story  told; 

Their  fighting  days  are  over. 
For  them  no  jocund  crowds  shall  come, 
To  celebrate  the  welcome  home; 
But  Grief  shall  sit  till  life  shall  close. 
Weeping  in  darkened  homes  for  those 

Whose  days  on  earth  are  over. 

— L.  N.  Chaptrt. 


THAT    WESTERN    FLOTILLA 

X  examination  of  the  roster  will  remind  the  comrades  of  the  call 
that  was  made  in  February,  1862,  for  volunteers  for  the  West- 
ern  Gunboat  Flotilla.  We  have  tried  to  trace  the  history  and 
fate  of  the  men  who  went  from  the  Thirty-fourth,  but  have  not  had 
any  great  success.  Comrade  Philo  Bell,  however,  who  went  from 
Co'.  H,  probably  knows  more  about  that  service  than  any  other  man, 
and  we  have  asked  him  to  tell  about  it.  He  has  furnished  us  with 
quite  a  narrative,  all  of  which  we  wish  we  could  publish  ;  but  are  not 
able  to  do  so.  But  we  give  it  in  part : 

"  We  left  the  Thirty-fourth  Regiment  at  Camp  McClellan  February  1 6,  1862, 
with  nineteen  besides  myself,  from  the  Thirty-fourth.  There  were  700  from 
the  Army  of  the  Potomac  when  we  left  Baltimore;  and  probably  the  roughest 
seven  hundred  men  that  were  ever  on  one  train.  There  were  a  great  many 
killed  going,  and  I  have  often  thought  how  lucky  I  was  to  reach  Cairo.  On 
reaching  there,  I  went  on  board  the  receiving-ship  Moriah  Denning.  There  I 
suffered.  I  had  nothing  to  eat  for  three  days.  On  the  third  day,  Commodore 
Foote  came  on  board,  and  picked  out  all  the  largest  men  for  his  Flagship 
Benton,  taking  me  with  the  rest.  We  soon  got  under  way  for  Island  No.  Ten. 
There  I  saw  my  first  service  in  the  navy.  I  volunteered  to  go  in  the  night, 
with  twelve  others,  and  spike  a  battery  on  the  shore  above  the  Island.  I 
received  for  my  reward  a  rating  from  landsman,  at  twelve  dollars  a  month, 
to  shipsman,  at  forty-two  dollars  a  month." 

Comrade  Bell  took  part  in  all  the  naval  engagements,  sanguinary 
in  the  extreme,  occurring  along  that  part  of  the  Mississippi ;  the  battle 
of  Fort  Pillow,  the  battle  in  front  of  Memphis,  when  Van  Dorn,  with 
nine  boats,  met  our  fleet  of  five  vessels,  and  got  badly  whipped ;  eight 
of  his  nine  vessels  being  sunk ;  the  engagement  at  Fort  White ;  the 
battle  at  Haine's  Bluff,  near  Vicksburg,  where  the  Union  fleet  stormed 
the  batteries  for  three  days ;  next  chasing  the  rebel  ram  Arkansas  ;  but 
bloodiest  of  all,  the  battle  of  Grand  Gulf.  He  adds : 

"  History  says  that  was  the  hardest  stand-up  fight  during  the  war.  We  were 
five  hours  and  a" half,  and  never  left  until  the  enemy  was  silenced.  Fifty-two 
were  killed  on  the  Flagship  Benton,  and  eight  wounded.  General  Grant,  in  his 
Personal  Memoirs,  says:  'When  I  went  aboard  the  Flagship  Benton  I  was 
heart-sickened.'  Well  he  might  be,  for  the  blood  was  actually  above  the 
scupper  holes. 

"John  P.  Johnson,  of  Company  H,  and  Edmund  W.  Ferris,  of  Company  I. 
were  with  me  on  the  Benton.  Johnson  rebelled,  with  some  fifty  more,  and  would 
not  run  the  batteries  of  Vicksburg.  They  were  sent  to  the  Rip  Raps  Island. 
Ferris  was  discharged  when  I  was.  The  rest  of  the  boys  went  onto  the  Mortar 
Fleet.  I  saw  some  of  them  occasionally.  Don't  know  whatever  became  of 
them." 


SINCE    THE    WAR 


MAXV    are    the    inquiries    that    have    been    made,  in    regard    to 
the  whereabouts  and  fortunes  of  the  old  men,  and  particularly 
of  the  officers,   since  the  war.     We  have  done  our  best  to 
answer  these  inquiries,  with  only  fair  success,  as  to  the  officers,  and  very 
poor  success  as  to  the  rank  and  file.     We  give  such  biographical  details 
as  we  have  been  able  to  obtain. 

COLONEL  WILLIAM  LADEW'. 

Colonel  Ladew  was  born  in  Ulster  County,  N.  Y.,  on  the  26th  day 
of  February,  1826.  His  education  consisted  of  a  course  at  a  university 
in  Saratoga,  X.  Y.  His  first  venture  into  business  transpired  when  he 
entered  a  tannery,  under  his  father's  supervision.  Next,  he  built  a  tan 
nery  for  the  late  Geo.  B.  Gillman  at  Monticello,  Sullivan  County,  Ne\v 
York.  Shortly  after  this  he  erected  a  tannery  of  his  own  in  Gray, 
Herkimer  County,  New  York,  which  he  conducted  until  the  war  broke 
out.  He  was  at  this  time  colonel  of  the  Thirty-eighth  New  York- 
Militia.  When  the  call  came  for  volunteers,  he  was  one  of  the  first  to 
offer  his  services  to  the  cause.  He  remained  in  active  service  until  fail 
ing  health  compelled  him  to  resign  his  commission.  Following  this 
event  he  took  an  active  part  in  quelling  the  "  New  York  Riot,"  which 
occurred  about  this  time.  He  later  resumed  business  at  his  tannery,  and 
continued  this  work  for  several  years.  Later  he  was  employed  by  the 
Government  as  a  city  contractor,  in  Washington,  D.  C.  Just  previous 
to  his  death,  he  was  employed  in  carrying  on  contracts  for  the  repairing 
of  the  New  York  City  streets.  He  died  in  New  York  City  on  April  26, 
1880. 

COLONEL  JAMES  A.  SUITER. 

Colonel  Suiter,  who  succeeded  Colonel  Ladew  in  command  of  the 
regiment,  January  22,  1862,  and  was  with,  and  in  command  of  the  regi 
ment  during  the  whole  fighting  period  nearly  of  the  regiment's  history, 
was  born  in  Herkimer,  N.  Y.,  on  the  2Qth  day  of  April,  1816;  and  in 
early  life  learned  the  trade  of  a  saddle  and  harnessmaker,  which  busi 
ness"  he  still  carries  on.  We  believe  he  has  resided  in  Herkimer  almost, 
if  not  continuously,  since  his  birth.  He  has  been  connected  with  the 
military  forces  of'  the  state  nearly  all  his  life,  having  joined  the  old 
Lafayette  Guards,  under  the  command  of  General  Francis  E.  Spinner, 
who  was  a  neighbor  in  the  adjoining  town  of  Mohawk  at  the  time,  and 
afterward,  during  the  whole  period  of  the  war  of  the  rebellion,  United 
States  Treasurer!  The  boy,  Suiter,  was  faithful  in  the  discharge  of  his 
duties,  and  steadily  advanced,  until  he  became  the  colonel  of  his  regi 
ment,  the  Thirty-eighth  New  York,  which  was  a  part  of  the  old  State 


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militia.  We  believe  that  Colonel  Laclew  was  also,  at  a  later  time,  the 
colonel  of  the  organization.  At  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  with 
Mexico,  Colonel  Suiter  enlisted,  and  was  made  a  second  lieutenant  in 
Company  E,  First  Regiment  New  York  Volunteers.  He  served  until 
the  close  of  the  war,  being  mustered  out  at  Fort  Hamilton,  New  York 
Harbor.  In  April,  1861,  when  President  Lincoln  issued  his  first  call 
for  volunteers,  Colonel  Suiter  was  the  first  man  to  enlist  in  a  company 
he  formed,  that  became  Company  G,  of  the  Thirty-fourth  New  York 
Volunteers.  He  was  made  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  regiment  at  its 
organization  in  Albany,  June  15,  1861,  and  on  the  resignation  of  Colonel 
Ladew,  in  March,  1862,  was  made  Colonel,  with  rank  from  January  22. 
He  was  a  brave  and  always  popular  officer  in  the  regiment;  and  on 
several  occasions,  as  at  Glendale,  during  the  Seven  Days'  Battles,  had 
command  of  the  brigade.  The  horse  he  rode  was  three  times  wounded, 
once  at  Fair  Oaks,  once  at  Antietam,  and  once  at  Fredericksburg.  On 
leaving  the  service,  the  colonel  returned  to  his  native  town,  and  resumed 
his  former  business.  He  is  now  (1902)  eighty-six  years  of  age,  and  it 
is  not  likely  he  will  ever  go  to  war  any  more. 

COLONEL  BYRON  LAFLIN. 

Colonel  Laflin  was  born  in  Lee,  Mass.,  in  April,  1824.  He  early 
took  up  his  residence  in  Herkimer,  N.  Y.,  where,  with  his  brother  Addi- 
son,  he  was  engaged  in  the  business  of  manufacturing  writing  paper, 
when  the  war  broke  out  in  1861.  He  entered  the  service  as  captain  of 
Company  F,  which  was  a  Herkimer  company,  was  mustered  in  as 
major  at  the  organization  of  the  regiment  June  15,  1861,  at  Albany ;  was 
mustered  in  as  lieutenant-colonel  March  22,  1862,  vice  Suiter  pro 
moted  to  colonel,  vice  Colonel  Ladew  resigned ;  was  mustered  in  as 
colonel  January  22,  1863,  vice  Suiter  resigned.  After  the  war  he  was 
appointed  marshal  of  Virginia.  A  letter  from  Quartermaster  Easter- 
brook  gives  the  following  particulars  in  regard  to  his  subsequent 


"One  day,  while  he  was  Marshal  of  Virginia,  and  located  at  Richmond, 
Captain  Rich,  of  Company  D,  came  into  his  office  at  Richmond.  Rich  wanted 
place  or  business.  Laflin  told  him  to  go  to  North  Carolina,  and  buy  a  planta 
tion  at  a  price  not  exceeding  $20,000,  and  he  would  take  half  of  it.  Rich  did  so. 
Laflin  wrrote  me  that  after  President  Johnson  commenced  to  raise  'hell/  he 
resigned  his  position,  and  went  to  the  plantation  with  Rich.  They  were  elected 
to  the  legislature,  Rich  as  senator,  Laflin  as  assemblyman.  Rich  died  while  in 
the  senate,  and  Laflin,  with  a  legislative  committee,  took  his  remains  to  Vermont. 
Laflin  continued  the  plantation,  and  got  into  the  banking  business;  but  recon 
struction  ruined  business  and  Laflin  too,  and  he  got  out.  He  went  to  Norfolk, 
Va.,  where  he  found  Captain  Oswald,  formerly  of  Company  A,  at  the  head  of  a 
steamboat  line,  of  large  means  and  business,  but  soon  after  Oswald  died,  and 
Laflin  went  north.  He  had  been  an  invalid  for  many  years,  also  a  pensioner. 
He  had  an  attendant,  who  dressed  and  undressed  him.  I  last  saw  him  in  1897 
at  the  boat  landing  in  Hudson.  I  was  on  my  way  to  Little  Falls  to  attend  a 
reunion  of  the  old  Thirty-fourth.  He  was  very  desirous  of  going  too,  but  his 
physical  condition  and  his  infirmities  would  not  admit  of  his  going." 


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Colonel  Laflin  died  at  his  home  in  the  city  of  Hudson,  N.  Y.,  June 
19,  1901.  In  the  Army  and  Navy  Journal  we  find  this  memorandum: 
"During"  the  reconstruction  period  he  was  Provisional  Governor  of 
North  Carolina,  and  afterward  member  of  the  North  Carolina  legisla 
ture."  (Probably  an  error  as  to  his  having  been  Provisional  Gover 
nor  of  North  Carolina. — Ed.)  He  is  buried  in  the  family  plot  at  Her- 
kimer. 

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  JOHN   BEVERLY. 

After  the  war  Colonel  Beverly,  in  common  with  many  others  who 
thought  the  opportunities  would  be  great  in  that  opening  country,  went 
to  the  far  west,  where  he  addressed  himself  to  the  practice  of  the  law ; 
and  in  1891  we  find  him  elected  to  the  office  of  Probate  Judge  of  Pierce 
County,  Wash.  T.,  by  a  handsome  majority.  The  term  was  four  years. 
Later,  on  account  of  failing  health,  he  came  east,  and  for  several 
years  made  his  home  with  his  daughter  Ada,  Mrs.  J.  N.  Bostwick,  at 
Amsterdam,  N.  Y.  Here  he  died  on  August  18,  1900.  Among  his 
three  grandsons,  children  of  Mrs.  Bostwick,  is  one  who  bears  his  name, 
and  is  said  to  be  his  faithful  counterpart  in  looks  and  actions.  Another 
daughter  lives  near.  The  Colonel  was  a  member  of  the  Loyal  Legion 
at  the  time  of  his  death,  and  had  also  taken  the  thirty-second  degree  in 
Masonry.  A  letter  from  Mrs.  Bostwick  gives  the  following  touching 
reminiscences  of  the  Colonel's  last  days  and  burial : 

"  The  last  few  months  of  his  life,  while  feeble  in  mind  and  body,  he  lived  over 
much  of  the  old  army  life ;  and  the  names  of  his  old  comrades  came  promptly  to 
his  lips,  when  close  friends  of  a  later  day  were  entirely  forgotten.  We  took  him 
back  to  Brockett's  Bridge,  (now  Dolgeville,)  for  burial  by  the  side  of  my  mother, 
who  died  while  he  was  in  the  army.  (Comrades  of  the  Thirty-fourth  will  recall 
the  death  of  the  Colonel's  wife  while  we  were  at  Bolivar  Heights,  after  Antietam, 
and  that  he  was  not  able  to  be  with  her  at  the  time. — Ed.)  It  was  with  a 
mighty  heartache  we  did  this,  for  I  said  to  my  husband,  'It  is  so  many  years 
since  he  left  there,  no  one  will  remember  such  a  man  as  John  Beverly  ever  lived.' 
When  the  train  drew  into  the  station,  we  were  met  by  a  number  of  grey-haired 
men,  wearing  the  G.  A.  R.  badge,  who  escorted  us  to  the  cemetery.  As  we 
neared  it,  I  remarked,  'There  must  be  another  funeral  at  this  hour,  so  many 
people  are  here.'  Such  was  not  the  case,  however,  and  as  we  came  to  the  grave, 
a  gentleman  stepped  to  the  front,  and  said:  'I  will  introduce  Captain  Frank 
Faville,  who  knew  our  deceased  brother  well,  and  will  make  a  few  remarks.' 
When  we  left  him  there,  I  felt  that  we  were  leaving  him  with  old  and  faithful 
friends.  Acts  like  these  mean  so  much  to  the  living,  and  are  such  a  comfort." 

MAJOR  WELLS   SPONABLE. 

Major  Sponable  was  born  December  16,  1829,  at  Minden,  Mont 
gomery  County,  N.  Y.  Moved  to  Little  Falls,  N.  Y.,  April  i,  1847,  ancl 
commenced  to  learn  the  mason  business.  Afterward  he  carried  on  the 
building  business  till  April  19,  1861,  when  he  recruited  a  company, 
which  became  Company  B,  in  the  Thirty-fourth  Regiment,  New  York 
Volunteers.  He  became  captain  of  the  company,  and  subsequently 
major  of  the  regiment.  On  the  return  home  of  the  regiment,  the  Major 


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was  not  mustered  out  with  the  others,  but 
transferred  to  the  Fifteenth  United  States 
Infantry,  Veteran  Reserve  Corps,  and 
appointed  Inspector  General  of  Prisoners ; 
and  assigned  to  Camp  Douglas,  Chicago, 
where  he  remained  till  the  close  of  the  war. 
While  here,  he  was  subjected  to  many 
annoyances,  and  the  story  of  how  he  re 
sisted  and  exposed  the  machinations  of 
a  lot  of  scamps  who  thought  the  depart 
ment  ought  to  be  run  for  what  there  was 
in  it  is  one  of  the  interesting,  and  widely- 
published  chapters  of  war  history.  The 
Ala j or  sends  us  the  following  account  of  a 
most  interesting  event  connected  with  his 
service  at  Camp  Douglas : 

"  In  the  spring  of  1865,  it  was  discovered 
that  Charles  Walsh,  who  lived  near  the 
camp,  had  made  a  plan  to  release  the 
prisoners.  Walsh  was  arrested.  We  found 
700  revolvers,  a  large  amount  of  ammuni 
tion,  and  three  Confederate  officers,  in 
Walsh's  house.  We  turned  Walsh  and  the 
officers  over  to  General  Hooker.  Lee  sur 
rendered  soon  after,  and  Walsh  was  never 
tried.  When  the  New  York  and  Chicago 
Fast  Mail  began  to  run,  I  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  east  end.  One  morning 
a  man  came  to  me,  and  presented  a  pass  to  ride  in  the  mail  car  to  Chicago, 
and  said  he  had  the  contract  to  carry  the  mails  in  Chicago.  I  believed 
the  man  was  Walsh,  and  said,  'I  think  the  Postmaster-General  does  not  know 
you,  I  will  wire  him,  and  if  he  then  wishes  you  to  ride  in  the  postal  car,  all  right ; 
but  in  my  opinion  you  have  no  business  in  the  United  States.'  'You  need  not 
wire  the  Postmaster-General;  I  will  ride  on  another  train,'  he  replied." 

The  Major  left  the  military  service  of  the  United  States  in  July, 
1865.  Was  appointed  a  clerk  in  the  railway  mail  service  in  1868,  and 
remained  in  the  service  till  removed  by  Mr.  Cleveland,  October  23, 
1888;  was  reappointed  by  President  Harrison,  in  April,  1889,  and  again 
removed  by  President  Cleveland,  in  October,  1893  ;  was  again  reap 
pointed  by  President  McKinley,  in  July,  1897;  and  is  still  (1902)  in 
the  same  service.  The  Major  has  been  informed  by  persons  in  Chicago 
that  it  was  through  the  machinations  of  Walsh  that  he  was  removed 
during  the  administrations  of  Cleveland. 


ASSISTANT    SURGEON    EDWARD    S. 
WALKER 


DR.  SOCRATES  N.  SHERMAN. 

Socrates  Norton  Sherman  was  born  in  Barre,  Yt,  1801.  Gradu 
ated  at  the  Medical  College  at  Castleton,  Vt,  in  1825.  Moved  to 
Ogdensburg,  N.  Y.,  and  commenced  the  practice  of  his  profession  with 
Dr.  Smith,  whose  niece,  Lois  Low,  he  married.  Was  representative  in 
Congress  in  1861-62;  entered  the  Thirty-fourth  Regiment,  New  York 


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State  Volunteers,  as  surgeon,  April,  1861.  In  1862  was  mustered  into 
the  United  States  service,  and  given  charge  of  the  hospital  at  Grafton, 
W.  Ya.  Here  his  wife  joined  him  in  1864,  where  she  suddenly  died  the 
same  year.  He  died  in  Ogdensburg,  N.  Y.,  February  I,  1873. 

ADJUTANT  GEORGE  W.  THOMPSON. 

Adjutant  Thompson  left  us  January  28,  1863,  to  become  lieutenant- 
colonel  of  the  One  hundred  and  fifty-second  Regiment,  New  York  State 
Volunteers,  a  regiment  composed  largely  of  Herkimer  County  men. 
December  12,  following,  he  was  commissioned  colonel.  He  saw  a  good 
deal  of  hard  service  in  that  regiment.  He  was  present  during  what  is 
known  as  the  Blackwater  Campaign,  in  1863,  the  Second  Peninsular 
Campaign,  and  also  in  the  operations  connected  with  the  suppression  of 
the  New  York  riots  of  that  same  year.  At  the  battle  of  Spottsylvania 
Court  House,  May  9,  1864,  he  was  badly  wounded,  and  for  a  long  time 
\vas  not  able  to  do  dutv  in  the  field,  but  was  assigned  to  duty  on  Gen 
eral  Court  Martial ;  before  which  occurred  the  trial  of  many  important 
cases,  the  Court  sitting  at  Washington,  D.  C,  Carlisle,  Pa.,  Wheeling, 
W.  Ya.,  and  Philadelphia,  Pa.  He  remained  continuously  in  the 
service  until  Tune  24,  1865,  the  close  of  the  war.  He  is  now  a  busy  and 
prosperous  man,  head  of  the  Diamond  Mills  Paper  Co.,  with  head 
quarters  at  44  Murray  street,  New  York.  He  was  born  at  Pittsfield, 
Mass.,  February  12,  1830,  and  is  therefore  now  over  seventy  vears  old; 
but,  if  we  are  not  greatly  mistaken,  he  still  has  a  great  many  busy  days 
left  to  his  record.  "  We  think  the  Colonel,  and  Captain  Northup,  judg 
ing  from  the  pictures  we  give,  have  changed  more,  in  their  physical 
expression,  than  any  other  officers  in  the  regiment.  We  think  the 
comrades  generally  will  agree  with  us  in  this. 

CHAPLAIN  JOHN  B.  VAN  PETTEN. 

Reverend  J.  B.  Van  Petten,  our  first  chaplain,  was  born  at  Sterling, 
N.  Y.,  in  1827,  and  at  the  outbreak  of  the  rebellion,  was  Principal  of  the 
large  and  prosperous  seminary  at  Fairfiekl,  in  northern  Herkimer 
County.  This  institution  contributed  many  men  to  the  Union  armies 
during  the  Civil  War,  and  a  good  number  of  its  earliest  volunteers  were 
in  the  Thirty-fourth.  He  resigned  his  position  as  principal,  and  went 
with  the  regiment  as  its  first  chaplain.  He  was  with  the  regiment  con 
tinuously  until  the  fall  of  1862,  when  he  resigned,  to  accept  the  position 
of  lieute'nant-colonel  of  the  One  hundred  and  sixtieth  Regiment,  New 
York  State  Volunteers.  This  regiment  was  ordered  to  the  Depart 
ment  of  the  Gulf,  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  Banks'  Expedition. 
Three  weeks  after  entering  the  department,  the  colonel  of  the  regiment 
went  on  detached  service,  and  our  old  chaplain  was  made  its  permanent 
commander.  The  regiment  saw  a  good  deal  of  hard  fighting,  and  he 
was  with  it  through  it  all.  In  the  summer  of  1864,  he  was  with  Sheri- 


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dan,  in  the  Shenandoah 
Valley,  and  at  the  battle 
of  Opequan,  September  18, 
1864,  he  was  severely 
wounded,  but  gained  offi 
cial  recommendation.  On 
recovering  from  his 
wounds,  he  accepted  the 
colonelcy  of  the  One  hun 
dred  and  ninety-third  Regi 
ment,  and  was  shortly  made 
a  brevet  brigadier.  He  re 
mained  in  the  military  ser 
vice  until  January  18,  1866. 
Returning  to  civil  life,  he 
again  became  Principal  of 
Fairfield  Seminary ;  and 
while  in  this  position  was 
elected  to  the  State  Senate 
of  1868-69.  Immediately 
at  the  close  of  his  term,  he 
went  to  reside  in  Sedalia, 
Mo.,  but  in  1880  he  again 
returned  to  the  principal- 
ship  of  Fairfield  Seminary ; 
from  which  position  he 
went  to  the  chair  of  Latin 
and  history  in  Claverack 

College,  New  York,  where  he  remained  sixteen  years.  In  1900  he  went 
to  Syracuse,  where  he  still  resides,  being  connected  with  the  Syracuse 
Classical  School. 

CAPTAIN  HENRY  BALDWIN. 

Henry  Baldwin  raised  a  company  of  volunteers,  at  Addison, 
Steuben  County,  in  the  early  part  of  May,  1861,  in  response  to  that  first 
call  of  President  Lincoln.  On  May  17,  he  was  elected  its  captain.  He 
was  then  twenty-eight  years  of  age.  Was  mustered  into  the  state  ser 
vice,  with  his  company,  May  22,  and  on  the  2/th  of  the  same  month 
was  ordered  with  his  company  to  Albany.  On  the  I5th  of  June,  his 
own,  with  various  other  companies,  five  of  which  were  from  Herkimer 
County,  were  organized  into  the  Thirty-fourth  New  York  Volunteers. 
His  company  then  became  Company  E.  He  held  his  position  as  cap 
tain  until  the  final  muster  out.  When  this  occurred,  in  1863,  he  re 
turned  to  Steuben  County.  In  1867  he  was  breveted  major,  and  in 
1869  was  appointed  colonel  of  the  One  hundred  and  sixth  Regiment, 
New  York  State  Militia.  In  1885  Captain  Baldwin,  or,  as  we  should 
now  speak  of  him,  Colonel  Baldwin,  was  elected  sheriff  of  Steuben 


GENERAL    JOHN    B.    VAN    PETTEN 
Our  First  Chaplain 


SINCE   THE  WAR  105 

County,  and  served  a  full  term  of  three  years  from  the  first  of  January, 
1886.  He  was  a  man  of  prominence  and  standing  in  his  community, 
was  president  of  a  bank  at  the  time  of  his  death,  in  1895,  and  was  uni 
versally  respected  by  all  who  knew  him. 

CAPTAIN  MONROE  BRUNDAGE. 

Captain  Monroe  Brundage,  Company  I,  was  born  in  the  town  of 
Bath,  N.  Y.,  October  27,  1836,  and  lived  while  a  boy  on  the  farm  with 
his  parents,  until  his  father's  death,  which  occurred  when  Monroe  was 
about  fifteen  years  of  age;  he  continued  to  reside  with  his  mother  on 
the  farm,  until  his  majority  ;  when  he  came  in  possession  of  the  property, 
which  he  continued  to  conduct  until  the  breaking  out  of  the  rebellion ; 
when,  on  April  23,  1861,  he  enlisted  in  what  afterwards  became  Com 
pany  I,  of  the  Thirty-fourth  New  York  Regiment.  On  the  comple 
tion  of  the  organization  of  his  company,  he  was,  by  the  unanimous  vote 
of  his  company,  elected  second  lieutenant,  on  June  10,  1861.  He  served 
in  this  capacity,  being  continuously  in  service,  until  September  17,  1862, 
when,  at  the  Battle  of  Antietam,  he  was  wounded  in  the  right  arm,  near 
the  shoulder,  by  a  minnie  ball,  which  shattered  the  arm,  which  was  after 
ward  amputated.  He  was  then  given  leave  of  absence,  and  went  to  his 
home,  where  he  remained  until  January  following,  having  recovered 
sufficiently  to  rejoin  his  company.  Meanwhile,  on  November  10,  1862, 
he  was  appointed  first  lieutenant,  and  on  February  10,  was  made  cap 
tain  of  his  company.  He  remained  with  his  company  in  the  field  until 
March  17,  1863,  when,  on  the  advice  of  Dr.  Sherman,  surgeon  of  the 
regiment,  he  resigned  his  commission,  and  returned  home,  where  lie 
resumed  the  conduct  of  his  farm,  and  continued  it  until  his  death,  which 
occurred  May  26,  1875.  At  the  election  of  1868,  he  was  elected  a 
member  of  Assembly  of  this  State ;  in  which  capacity  he  served  during 
the  legislative  term  of  1869,  serving  with  credit  to  himself,  and  the 
highest  satisfaction  of  his  constituents.  He  was  a  man  of  sterling 
quality,  highly  respected  by  the  members  of  his  company,  and  all  the 
parties  with  whom  he  came  in  contact.  His  friends  were  simply  num 
bered  by  the  people  who  knew  him.  His  death  occurred  as  a  direct 
result  of  typhoid  fever,  which  he  contracted  during  the  winter  of  1875. 

CAPTAIN  IRVING  D.  CLARK. 

Captain  Irving  Delos  Clark,  34  Grand  street,  Gloversville,  X.  Y., 
was  born  in  Little  Falls,  January  26,  1839.  He  came  of  New  England 
stock.  His  great-grandfather,  Daniel  Clark,  was  a  captain  in  the  Revo 
lutionary  War,  from  Middletown,  Conn.  He  has  been  twice  married, 
and  has  a  son  by  his  present  wife,  Dr.  Frank  F.  Clark,  a  practising 
physician  in  New  York  City.  His  father's  family  consisted  of  three 
sons  and  three  daughters.  The  sons  and  also  the  daughters'  husbands 
were  Union  soldiers.  A  brother,  Roswell  Clark,  of  Little  Falls,  a  ser 
geant  in  the  Ninety-seventh  Regiment,  was  killed  at  Antietam.  He  has 


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resided  in  Little  Falls  and  St.  Johnsville,  and 
for  thirty-two  years  in  Gloversville.  Except 
for  typhoid  fever  in  Virginia  and  a  slight 
wound  at  Fair  Oaks,  and  an  injury  by  falling 
horse  at  Edward's  Ferry,  October  21,  1861,  he 
has  never  been  ill  a  day  in  his  life.  Time  has 
been  generous,  and  he  is  as  fresh  as  a  boy 
to-day. 

^^^^^  CAPTAIN  JOY  E.  JOHNSON. 

"Captain    Johnson,    when    he    joined    us, 
was  a  stranger  from  the  State  of  Connecticut. 

CAPT.JOV  E.JOHNSON — 1863   When  he  was  mustered  out  of  the  service,  he 

returned  to  his  native  state,  became  a  benedict, 

had  a  fit  of  sickness,  became  insane,  was  sent  to  an  asylum,  where  he 
died,  as  his  wife  wrote  me.  She  was  an  applicant  for  a  pension."  Thus 
wrote  Colonel  Suiter.  Captain  Johnson's  military  record  is  as  follows  : 
"Enlisted  May  I,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in 
as  first  sergeant  Company  G,  June  15,  1861  ;  as  first  lieutenant,  Decem 
ber  2,  1861  ;  as  captain  March  20,  1862;  mustered  out  with  company 
June  30,  1863." 

CAPTAIN  EMERSON  S.  NORTHUP. 

After  the  war,  Captain  Northup,  in  common  with  many  others, 
drifted  to  the  west.  We  find  him,  in  the  nineties,  a  practising  physi 
cian,  in  Kansas  City,  Mo.  Here  he  put  in  eighteen  years  of  hard  work. 
In  February,  1899,  he  went  to  southern  California,  to  seek  recovery 
from  a  very  serious  attack  of  pneumonia.  He  decided  to  remain  in  that 
sunny  clime.  In  1901,  he  was  on  crutches,  caused  by  a  painful  abscess 
on  his  left  knee.  This  was  not  the  first  time  the  captain  had  been  on 
crutches  ;  for  he  was  badly  wounded  in  the  leg  at  the  battle  of  White  Oak 
Swamp,  or  Glendale,  and  was  carried  by  his  comrades  to  Malvern  Hill 
and  safety.  The  captain  had  not  fully  recovered  from  his  wound  at  the 
Battle  of  Antietam,  the  following  year,  although  he  was  back  for  duty ; 
and  in  a  private  letter  he  wished  the  secretary  to  publicly  thank  private 
George  Getman,  of  his  company,  who  took  him  on  his  back,  and  carried 
him  across  Antietam  Creek,  on  that  eventful  morning,  when  we  were 
advancing  from  Keedysville,  toward  the  battlefield.  The  captain  sent 
a  tender  message  to  Colonel  Suiter,  and  all  his  old  comrades,  which 
was  read  at  the  dedication.  He  had  fully  intended  to  come  on,  and  was 
down  on  the  program  to  make  the  dedicatory  prayer ;  but  at  the  last  mo 
ment  was  compelled  to  give  up  coming.  His  daughter,  Miss  Ella  Clare 
Northup,  also  expected  to  be  present,  and  sing  a  solo ;  but  was  likewise 
prevented ;  both  were,  however,  present  in  spirit.  The  captain  is  now 
permanently  settled  in  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  and  reports  himself  in  good 
health.  Now,  as  always,  even  before  the  war,  at  his  home  in  Salisbury 
Center,  N.  Y.,  he  is  deeply  immersed  in  church  work. 


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CAPTAIX  HEXRY  W.  SAXFORD. 

After  being  mustered  out  of  service  at  Albany,  X.  Y.,  in  the  sum 
mer  of  1863,  First  Lieutenant,  Henry  W.  Sanford,  of  Company  E,  who 
had  on  several  occasions  been  the  only  commissioned  officer  present  with 
the  company,  raised  and  organized  a  company  of  cavalry,  and  joined  the 
Second  Xew  York  Veteran  Cavalry,  then  organizing  at  Saratoga 
Springs.  Many  of  this  company  were  old  veterans,  quite  a  number  of 
them  being  from  Company  E,  of  the  Thirty-fourth  Regiment.  This  com 
pany,  which  became  Company  G,  was  mustered  into  the  service  with  H. 
\Y.  Sanford  as  its  captain,  and  Melville  S.  Dunn,  second  lieutenant  in 
Company  E,  of  the  Thirty-fourth,  as  its  first  lieutenant.  The  regi 
ment  served  on  the  Red  River  Expedition,  in  Louisiana,  on  the  Pasca- 
goula  raid  in  Mississippi,  and  participated  in  the  taking  of  Mobile, 
Ala.,  the  last  battle  of  the  war.  Company  G  was  under  fire,  in  battles, 
and  on  the  skirmish  line,  for  thirty  consecutive  days,  on  the  Red  River 
campaign.  Lieutenant  Dunn  was  killed  in  a  cavalry  charge,  made  on  a 
bridge  near  Campti,  La.,  in  May,  1864.  The  regiment  was  not  mus 
tered  out  of  service  until  the  last  of  November,  1865. 

CAPTAIX  JOHX  O.  SCOTT. 

Captain  John  O.  Scott,  Company  D,  was  born  in  Chazy,  Clinton 
County,  X.  Y.  He  enlisted  in  1861,  and  was  appointed  first  lieutenant  of 
his  company,  and  later  became  its  captain.  After  his  discharge  he 
returned  to  his  home  town.  In  1867,  ne  settled  in  Waupaca,  Wis.,  and 
practised  his  chosen  profession  of  dentistry.  Captain  Scott  was  a  brave, 
competent,  and  conscientious  officer,  and  was  severely  wounded  at  Fair 
Oaks,  Ya.,  May  31,  1862.  Dr.  Scott  was  an  expert  in  his  business  ;  verv 
intellectual,  and  a  wonderful  Bible  student.  He  was  greatly  respected 
by  his  fellow  citizens,  and  was  elected  Mayor  in  1884.  He  was  married 
in  1868  to  Miss^Mary  G.  Yanduzee,  a  highly  cultured  Christian  lady, 
of  Waupaca.  She  still  survives  him.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
G.  A.  R.,  and  K.  of  P.  He  died  December  i,  1900. 

CAPTAIX  DAYIS  JEFFERSOX  RICH. 

Captain  Davis  Jefferson  Rich,  of  Company  D,  was  born  at  Shore- 
ham,  Yt.,  January  24,  1827,  and  died  in  Raleigh,  X.  C,  February  16. 
1869.  As  fully  stated  elsewhere,  at  the  outbreak  of  the  rebellion,  he 
organized  a  company  at  Champlain,  X.  Y.  He  was  never  married. 
For  particulars  in  regard  to  his  career  after  leaving  the  army,  we  refer 
to  the  sketch  of  Colonel  Laflin. 

CAPTAIX  \YILLIAM  H.  WARFORD. 

Captain  \Yilliam  H.  Warford,  of  Company  A,  after  the  return  from 
the  war,  engaged  in  the  transportation  business ;  and  at  the  time  of 
his  death,  which  occurred  in  1890,  or  1892,  he  was  running  a  line  of 
boats  between  Xew  York  and  Staten  Island. 


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CAPTAIN  WILLIAM  S.  WALTON. 

Captain  Walton  was  a  native  of  Ohio,  and 
received  his  academical  education  at  the  venerable 
Fairfield  Seminary,  Herkimer  County,  N.  Y.  He 
had  completed  one  year  of  his  college  course,  at 
Hamilton  College,  N.  Y.,  when  the  war  broke  out. 
He  responded  to  the  first  call  for  volunteers,  and 
enlisted  in  Company  K,  of  the  Thirty-fourth, 
April  18,  1861.  He  was  made  first  sergeant  of  the 
company,  and  November  22,  1861,  was  commis 
sioned  second  lieutenant;  on  July  i,  1862,  was 
commissioned  first  lieutenant ;  and  on  November 
CAPTAIN  CHARLES  j^  igfe,  was  commissioned  captain,  and  trans- 
RILEY— 1861  ferred  to  Company  H,  vice  S.  P.  Butler,  resigned. 

He  remained  in  the  service  until  the  term  of  en 
listment  had  expired.  He  was  wounded  at  Fair  Oaks,  and  again 
at  White  Oak  Swamp,  or  Glendale,  as  it  is  variously  called.  He  fell 
into  the  hands  of  the  rebels  at  this  time,  and  was  sent  to  Libby  Prison 
Hospital,  from  which  place  he  was  exchanged.  After  his  return  from 
the  army,  he  entered  the  Wesleyan  University,  at  Middletown,  Conn., 
and  graduated  with  honor.  He  married  Miss  Anna  Loyd,  of  Glovers- 
ville,  N.  Y.,  November  27,  1863.  In  September,  1872,  he  purchased 
the  Wabasha  Herald,  Minn.,  which  he  conducted  for  seven  years,  and 
then  sold.  He  then  became  engaged  in  the  book  business,  traveling  ex 
tensively,  until  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  December  25, 
1900,  at  Vienna,  111.,  where  he  was  temporarily  stopping  on  business. 
He  had  a  pleasant  home  at  Wabasha,  Minn.,  and  was  the  owner  of  a  fine 
collection  of  rare  books  and  engravings. 

CAPTAIN  CHARLES  RILEY. 

Of  Captain  Riley,  Company  F,  Colonel  Suiter  writes  under  date  of 
January  24,  1902 :  "  Captain  Riley  learned  the  trade  of  printer ;  gave  up 
his  trade,  and  was  in  the  employ  of  the  New  York  Central  Railroad  for 
many  years.  At  the  time  of  entering  the  army  was  passenger  conductor. 
At  the  close  of  the  rebellion  he  went  on  the  railroad  again,  and  was  in 
the  employ  of  the  New  York  Central  when  he  died,  some  fifteen  or 
twenty  years  ago  last  September." 

CAPTAIN   THOMAS    CORCORAN. 

On  the  1 7th  of  October,  1865,  Captain  Corcoran  was  married  in 
Newport,  Herkimer  County,  N.  Y.,  and  in  1869  removed  to  Chicago,  111., 
where  the  Captain  had  a  situation  with  the  United  States  Express  Co. 
He  was  with  the  Express  Company  for  several  years.  After  that  he 
was  employed  by  the  state  as  grain  inspector.  This  position  he  held 
for  about  fifteen  years,  and  until  his  health  became  impaired,  when  he 


SINCE  THE   WAR  109 

was  obliged  to  give  it  up.  He  first  had  rheumatism,  which  finally 
developed  into  paralysis.  It  is  now  (1902)  nearly  ten  years  since 
he  has  been  able  to  do  anything.  At  present  he  is  in  the  National  Home 
Hospital,  Ward  A,  Milwaukee,  Wis.  He  is  in  a  wheel  chair,  cannot 
use  his  limbs,  cannot  talk  or  feed  himself.  He  has  the  best  of  care, 
under  the  most  favorable  circumstances,  better,  probably,  than  it  is 
usually  possible  to  give  to  invalids  at  home.  The  Captain  and  his  wife 
have  had  three  sons,  only  two  of  whom  are  now  living.  The  Captain's 
wife  resides  in  Chicago,  and  kindly  furnishes  us  with  the  above  par 
ticulars.  The  Captain  and  his  wife  will  have  the  sympathy  of  his  old 
comrades  in  his  affliction. 

Later. — Since  the  above  was  written,  a  note  from  Mrs.  Corcoran 
announces  the  death  of  the  Captain  at  the  Soldiers'  Home,  Milwaukee, 
on  the  2 ist  of  January,  1903. 

DR.   E.  'S.   WALKER. 

Dr.  E.  S.  Walker  was  born  May  18,  1824,  at  Root,  Montgomery 
Co.,  X.  Y.  He  was  the  son  of  a  farmer,  one  of  a  family  of  six  (of 
whom  all  were  boys  but  one).  Although  reared  on  a  farmland  sharing 
the  hard  work  of  the  farm,  he  early  evinced  his  ambition  for  an  edu 
cation,  and  professonal  life.  His  first  work  was  that  of  a  teacher,  in 
the  school  wherein  he  had  formerly  been  a  student,  and  he  went  from 
there  to  the  study  of  medicine  at  Castleton,  Vt.  After  completing  his 
medical  studies  at  the  New  York  University,  from  which  he  was  gradu 
ated  in  1850,  he  located  at  Brockett's  Bridge,  N.  Y.  At  the  breaking 
out  of  the  war  he  volunteered  his  services,  and  was  appointed  assist 
ant  surgeon  of  the  Thirty-fourth  Regiment.  In  the  following  spring 
he  was  promoted  to  surgeon  of  the  One  hundred  and  twenty-first  Regi 
ment.  The  terrible  Peninsular  campaign  cost  him  his  health,  and  he 
received  an  honorable  discharge.  In  1864  he  was  appointed  examining 
surgeon  of  the  Board  of  Enrollment,  with  headquarters  at  Watertown, 
N.  Y.  At  the  close  of  the  war, he  located  at  Ilion,  N.  Y.,and  resumed  the 
practice  of  his  profession,  which  he  continued  with  remarkable  skill 
and  success  until  his  death,  on  July  13,  1876.  He  was  married  to 
Mary  Grant  in  1852.  Three  children  survive,  Mrs.  S.  G.  Heacock, 
Miss  Flora  Wralker,  and  Dr.  D.  E.  Walker,  all  of  Ilion,  N.  Y. 

PRIVATE  JAMES  FAVILLE. 

Very  many  of  the  old  comrades  will  remember  James  Faville,  of 
Company  K.  He  was  a  somewhat  singular  man  in  many  respects ; 
seemed  to  have  a  certain  "  clairvoyant  "  faculty  for  knowing  what  was 
going  on  among  the  enemy.  He  would  sometimes  disappear  from  the 
company  for  several  days,  nobody  appearing  to  know  where  he  was.  It 
was  generally  taken  for  granted  that  he  had  been  off  into  the  enemy's 
country  in  search  of  information.  He  went  over  the  river  a  great  many 
times  while  we  were  encamped  on  the  upper  Potomac ;  and  Major 


no  HISTORY   OF    THK    THIRTY-FOURTH    REGIMENT 

Sponable  is  responsible  for  some  pretty  good  stories  of  adventure  which 
befell  him  and  Faville  on  nights  when  they  were  out  together;  for 
Sponable,  in  the  days  when  he  was  captain,  was  a  man  who  leaned  heavily 
toward  the  south  side  of  the  river,  and  would  much  rather  be  over  on 
the  Virginia  shore,  scouting  around,  in  danger  of  his  life,  than  pursu 
ing  the  monotonous  round  of  camp  duties.  We  have  elsewdiere  had 
something  to  say  about  the  captain's  adventures.  Lieutenant  O.  YV  . 
Beach,  of  Company  B,  adds  this  of  one  of  the  adventures  in  which  Cap 
tain  Sponable  and  Faville  took  a  hand  : 

"Previous  to  the  ambushing  (elsewhere  described) ,  the  Captain,  Sergeants 
Petrie  and  Shell,  of  Company  B,  and  Private  James  Faville,  of  Company  K, 
crossed  the  Potomac  one  night,  nearly  opposite  Muddy  Branch,  and  succeeded 
in  capturing  some  Confederate  artillery  horses,  that  were  stationed  near  Dranes- 
ville,  Va.  On  their  return,  they  lost  their  way,  and  were  out  nearly  the  whole 
night;  they  having  struck  the  river  nearly  eight  miles  below  the  point  where 
they  desired  to  recross.  Notwithstanding  the  difficulties  thev  experienced,  they 
succeeded  in  adding  eight  horses  to  the  United  States  corral." 

Faville  was  nearly  always  engaged  in  some  such  adventure  as  this. 
After  the  muster  out,  "in  '63, 'he  returned  to  northern  Herkimer  County, 
and  to  the  woods,  which  had  been  his  home  before  the  war.  His  cousin. 
Captain  Frank  Faville,  of  Company  D,  of  the  Ninety-seventh  New 
York,  which  regiment  was  in  large  part  a  Herkimer  County  organiza 
tion,  and  therefore  regarded  with  a  friendly  eye  by  all  of  the  Thirty- 
fourth  boys  who  were  from  that  county,  writing  from  Dolgeville,  for 
merly  Brbckett's  Bridge,  which  was  the  town  in  which  Jim  enlisted 
under  Captain  Beverly,  gives  us  many  interesting  reminiscences  of  his 
visits  to  the  old  Thirty-fourth,  at  Alexandria,  Falmoutn,  Antietam,  and 
other  places,  and  has 'this  to  say  of  the  closing  years  of  the  life  of  this 
somewhat  singular  man,  with  mention  of  other  familiar  names : 

"  On  looking  around,  and  making  inquiry,  I  cannot  find  a  live  member  of 
the  Thirtv-fourth  in  this  section,  not  one.  But  I  recall  the  names,  John  Platt, 
Clinton  Lamb,  Alexander  Comins,  George  Somers,  Jim  Faville  and  his  partner, 
McLauo-hlin,  Adam  Mover,  Major  J.  Beverly,  and  Dr.  E.  S.  Walker,  all  dead. 
I  know  there  were  others,  but  their  names  have  gone  from  me.  Mv  cousin, 
after  the  war,  for  twenty-five  years,  followed  the  woods,  as  guide.  About  ten 
years  ago,  he  went  to  Florida,  and  sickened,  and  died." 


THE   SURVIVORS 

We  feel  reasonably  certain  that  the  following  Post  Office  addresses  are  cor 
rect.  We  have  had  many  other  names  first  and  last;  but  letters  addressed  to 
them  have  been  returned,  or  \ve  have  heard  that  they  were  dead,  or  removed, 
and  so  they  are  omitted  from  the  list.  There  surely  are  many  more  survivors 
than  this  list  would  indicate;  and  we  trust  that,  as  comrades  examine  this  list, 
and  call  others  to  mind,  they  will  immediately  notify  the  Secretary,  in  order 
that  the  absent  ones  may  also  be  notified  of  the  publication  of  the  History. 
We  repeat  the  statement  hitherto  made,  that  each  surviving  comrade,  or  his 
widow,  or  one  child  of  a  deceased  comrade,  is  entitled  to  a  copy  of  the  History, 
free  of  all  charge,  except  that  he  will  have  to  pay  the  expense  of  getting  the  book 
to  him,  which,  by  mail,  is  sixteen  cents,  which,  of  course,  has  to  be  paid  in 
advance.  If  sent  by  express,  the  charge  can  be  paid  at  the  other  end.  The  Sec 
retary's  permanent  P.  O.  Address,  from  now  on,  will  be  the  Hotel  Margaret, 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

LIEUTENANT  L.  X.  CHAPIX, 

Secretary. 

ATWOOD,  LIEUT.  ALFRED  T. — I — Moravia,  Cayuga  Co.,  X.  Y. 

ALLEN,   RUSSELL — B — Herkimer,  Herkimer  Co.   N.  Y. 

AUMICK,  JAMES  M. — E — Addison,  Steuben  Co.,  N.  Y. 

ALBEE,  EMERSON  W. — E — South  Addison,  Steuben  Co.,  N.  Y 

BARTON,  CHARLES  B. — C — Corry,  Pa. 

BALDWIN,  HORACE  D. — E — Addison,  N.  Y. 

BARNES,  WILLIAM  H. — A — Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

BOGARDUS,  HENRY  E. — E — South  Addison,  N.  Y. 

BARTON.  THEODORE  T. — H — Bath,  Clinton  Co.,  Mich. 

BOYER,  ANDREW — E — Cowdersport,  Pa. 

BURD,  DANIEL  F. — I — 218  Sweeny  Street,  North  Tonawanda,  X.  Y. 

BURLINGAME,  ORSON — E — 967  E.'Clinton  St.,  Elmira,  X.  Y. 

BENHAM,  L.  C. — I — Bath,  Steuben  Co..  X.  Y. 

BROWN,  LEANDER  D. — K — Dion.   Herkimer  Co.,  X.  Y. 

BEACH,  LIEUT.  ORRIN  W. — B — Bath,  N.  Y. 

BELL.  PHILO  H.—H— Crown  Point,  Essex  Co.,  X.  Y. 

BIGELOW,  ORVILLE  C. — H — Crown  Point,  Essex  Co.,  X.  Y. 

BALDWIN,  LEONARD  O.—H— Glens  Falls,  X.  Y. 

BRUNDAGE,  HON.  A.  C. — I — Adjutant  Soldiers'  Home,  Bath,  X.  Y. 

BILLINGS,  HARRISON — D — P.  O.  Box  187,  Jamestown,  X.  Y. 

BURT,  LIEUT.  WILLIAM  S. — C — Colebrook,  Herkimer  Co.,  X.  Y. 

CRANE,  DR.  GEORGE — E — Addison,  Steuben  Co.,  X.  Y. 

COON,  DANIEL  H.—E— Midland  City,  Mich. 

CHAMBERLAIN,  ORLANDO  R. — E — Hampden,  Ohio. 

CU.MMINGS,  RICHARD — E — Troupsburg  X.  Y. 

CROWL,  GEORGE  W. — E — Freeman!  Steuben  Co.,  X.  Y. 

CHAPIN,  LIEUT   L  X. — K — Hotel  Margaret,  Brooklyn,  X.  Y. 

COMSTOCK,  ORRIN — K — Gray,  Herkimer  Co.,  X.  Y. 

COOK,  ALBERT  H. — D — 424  Wisconsin  Ave.,  Madison,  Wis. 

CAMERON  ELI  — D — Rouse's  Point,  N.  Y. 

CURRIER.  OLIVER  C. — H — Crown  Point  Center,  Essex  Co..  X.  Y. 

CLARK,  CAPT.  IRVING  D. — B — 34  Grand  Street,  Gloversville.  X.  Y. 

DEI.ANY,  FRANKLIN  B. — I — Payette,  Canyon  Co.,  Idaho. 

DAVIDSON,  EDWARD — B — Wallingford,  New  Haven  Co.,  Conn. 

DOXTATER,  EZRA.  — G— Bath,  X.  Y. 

DEAL  HON.  CHARLES — D — U.  S.  Consul,  St.  Johns,  P.  Q.,  Canada. 

DEFOREST,  WILLIAM — K — Johnstown,  X.  Y. 

DURAND,  WILLIAM — E — West  Bay  City,  Mich. 

EASTERBROOK,  JR.,  QUARTERMASTER  NATHAN — Xew  Haven,  Conn. 

EARLY,  PATRICK  H — B — Burrell,  195  St.,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

EGAN,  CHARLES — G — Mohawk,  Herkimer  Co.,  X.  Y. 

EMBODY,  DANIEL  A. — C — 78  Seymour  Street,  Auburn,  X.  Y. 

FAIRBANKS,  JOSEPH — I — San  Francisco  Cal. 

FORT,  JESSE  R.—B— Little  Falls,  Herkimer  Co.,  X.  Y. 

FLINN,  CHARLES  J. — K — Box  19,  Rockwood,  Fulton  Co.   X.  Y 

FOLTS.  ADAM  T- — F — Herkimer.  X.  Y. 

Fox,  JOHN— E— Addison,  Steuben  Co.,  X.  Y. 

FINCH,  HIRAM  L.— E— Box  86,  Melrose,  Jackson  Co.,  Wis. 

GREENLY,  HIRAM  B. — K — Brookmgs,  South  Dakota. 

GREEN,  DANIEL  M. — E — Spencer,  Iowa. 

GIBSON,  JUDSON — I — South  Pulteney,  Steuben  Co.,  X.  Y. 

GOODBREAD,  JEROME — B — 519  E.  Jefferson  Street,  Little  Falls   X.  Y. 

GIBBS,  ALBERT  V. — E — Beach.  Wis. 

GREENE.  JAMES  X. — K — F  airfield.  Herkimer  Co..  X.  Y. 

GUYER.  JACOB — K — Paines'  Hollow   Herkimer  Co.,  N  Y 


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GOREY  WILLIAM — F — New  York  Mills  N.  Y. 

GAGE,  DAVID  N.—F— Mohawk,  Herkimer  Co.,  N.  Y. 

GAGE,  ABRAM — F — Columbia,  Herkimer  Co.,  N.  Y. 

GRAVES,  EDGAR — D — Chazy,  Clinton  Co.,  N.  Y. 

GRAHAM,  WILLIAM — H — Box  32,  Ironville,  Essex  Co.,  N.  \. 

HOLMES,  DENNIS — I — Bath,  Steuben  Co.,  N.  Y. 

HUTTON,  HENRY  T.— I— Board  of  Review,  Bureau  of  Pensions,  Washington,  D.  C. 

HARRINGTON,  JAMES  C. — I— Wellsboro,  Pa. 

HURLEY,  JAMES  P.— B— Little  Falls,  Herkimer  Co.,  N.  Y. 

HOWE,  ISAAC  G.—K— Bradford  Pa. 

HARTER,  DANIEL  M. — B — Ilion,  Herkimer  Co.,  N.  Y. 

HAYDEN,  O.  E.— C— 139  Furman  Street,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

HAYES,  MARTIN  V.  B.—K— Holland  Patent,  Oneida  Co.,  N.  Y.     R.  F.  D.  R.  No.  i. 

HELMER,  LIEUT.  WILLIAM  H. — F — Columbia,  Herkimer  Co.,  N.  \  . 

JOHNSON,  JOHN — K — Bath,  N.  Y. 

KELLOGG,  CYRUS  H.  — D — C-o  Kellogg  &  Johnson,  St.  Paul,  Minn. 

KIMBALL,  SAMUEL  J.—E— Bath,  N.  Y. 

LARROWE,  ASA  S. — I — Corner  Pine  and  Morris  Streets,  Bath,  N.  Y. 

LARROWE,  CAPTAIN  EUGENE  B.— I — Hammondsport,  Steuben  Co.,  N.  Y. 

LEDDICK,  GEORGE — I — Pulteney,  Steuben  Co.,  N.  Y. 

LAWTON,  LEWIS — C— Middleville,  Herkimer  Co.,  N.  Y. 

LEWIS  WILLIAM  H. — F — Frankfort,  Herkimer  Co.,  N.  Y. 

LYON,  JOHN— E— Bath,  Steuben  Co.,  N.  Y. 

LEMUNYAN,  EDWIN  M. — E — Hornellsville,  N.  Y. 

MILLS   EDSON  S. — B — Merriam  Avenue,  Syracuse,  N  \  . 

3IcGovERN,  MICHAEL— K— 289  William  Street,  Little  Falls,  N.  Y. 

.MAXWELL.  JAMES — G — Verona,  Oneida  Co.,  N.  Y. 

.McLEAN,  WILLIAM  J.— C— 126  Nelson  Street,  Utica,  N.  \  . 

JMcFEE,  ALBERT — D — Alburgh  Springs,  Vt. 

McCoRMiCK,  LIEUT.  JAMES— H—Ossining,  N.  Y. 

NORTHUP,  CAPTAIN  EMERSON  S. — K — Homer  Laughhn  Building,  Los  Angeles,  Ca 

OATHOUT,  LIEUT.  JOHN — A — Watervliet,  Albany  Co.,  N.  Y. 

OPPEL,  JOHN — B— Madison,  Wis. 

PERRY,  ADELBERT — B — Little  Falls,  N.  Y. 

PERRY,  WILLIAM— B— Little  Falls,  N.  Y. 

PATCHELL,  JOHN  B. — E — U2?  Texas  Avenue.  St  Louis,  Mo. 

PIERCE,  WALTER  B.—F— Herkimer,  N.  Y. 


PABODI'E,  GEORGE  A. — E — 323  Lynn  Ave.,  Baraboo,  Wi 
ROBISON,  SILAS  W. — I — Bradford,  Steuben  Co.,  N.  Y. 


ROOSEVELT,  CORNELIUS — F — 228  West  Sixty-seventh  Street,  New  York. 

ROGERS,  DENNIS — K — Stratford,  Fulton  Co.,  N.  Y. 

RATHBUN,  CHARLES — C— Countryman,  Herkimer  Co.,  N.  \  . 

ROBERTS,  WILLIAM— D— St.  Albans,  Vt. 

SUITER,  COLONEL  JAMES  A. — Herkimer,  N.  Y. 

SANFORD,  CAPTAIN  HENRY  W.—E— General  Land  Office,  Washington,  D.  C. 

SMITH,  THEODORE— K— Gloversville,  N.  Y. 

SPONABLE,  MAJOR  WELLS — Morris  Heights,  New  York  City. 

SCOTT,  GEORGE — D— Rouse's  Point,  N.  Y. 

SHAVER,  FREDERICK— K— Fairfield,  Herkimer  Co.,  N.  Y. 

SMITH,  HORACE  H.—B— Little  Falls .  N.  Y. 

STAURING,  MARVIN  PETER — B — Manheim,  Herkimer  Co.,  N.  Y. 

STRYKER,  DANIEL — E— East  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

BCHMINKE.  JACOB — G — Atkins,  Benton  Co.,  Iowa. 

SURDAM,  THOMAS  T. — E — Sunderlinville,  Potter  Co.,  Pa.  . 

SMITH,  Dr.  OWEN'M.— I— Union  Springs,  CayugaCo.,  N  Y.     Borne  in  Roster  as  OrrmM.  Emmett. 

Correction  received  too  late  to  change  in  the  Roster. 
THAYER,  ELI  R.— I— Academy,  Ontario  Co.,  N.  Y. 

THOMPSON,  COLONEL  GEORGE  W.  (our  first  Adjutant) — 44  Murray  Street,  New  York. 
TEN'BROECK,  HIRAM— E— Woodhull,  N.  Y. 
THOMPSON,  RUFUS — K — Stratf9rd,  Fulton  Co.,  N.  Y. 
TALCOTT  JAMES  M. — K — 916  Pine  Street,  Yankton,  South  Dakota. 
TOWNES,  HENRY  H.—H— Crown  Point  Center,  Essex  Co.,  N.  Y. 
TRAVER,  HERNY— K— Little  Falls,  N.  Y. 
USHER,  LIEUT.  F.  W.— F— R.  R.  No.  5,  Madison,  Wis. 
VAN  SLYKE,  MARTIN— F— 339  Gathers  Avenue,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
VAN  VALKENBURGH,  LEWIS  H.—F— Warren  Herkimer  Co.,  N.  Y. 
VAN  VALKENBURGH,  LIEUT.  WILLIAM  S.—F— Warren,  Herkimer  Co.,  N.  \  . 
V\x  COURT,  DR.  DANIEL  P.— G— Mohawk,  Herkimer  Co.,  N.  \  . 
VAN-ETTEN.JOHN!.— B— Little  Falls,  N.  Y. 

V\x  PETTEN  GEN  JOHN  B.  (our  first  Chaplain)— 665  Madison  Street,  Syracuse.  N.  Y. 
WELSH   PATRICK  J.— A— Hotel  Cross  Keys,  5931  Market  Street,  Philadelphia.  Pa. 
WAIT,  FRANCIS  J.—H—Shoreham,  Vt. 

WALDRON,  GEORGE  W.— H— Virgennes,  Vt.,  R.  F.  D.,  R.  No.  i. 
WALTON,  LIEUT.  HENRY  H.— K— 874  Seventy-first  Place,  Chicago,  111. 
WILLOUGHBY,  C.  A. — C — 1048  Park  Avenue,  Hannibal,  Mo. 
WOODS,  THOMAS— B— Little  Falls  N.  Y. 
WILSON,  JAMES  E. — E — Addison,  Steuben  Co.,  N.  Y. 
WHEELER,  JAMES  B.  — I — Oskaloqsa,  Kansas 
YOUNG,  EDWARD — E — Addison  Hill,  Steuben  Co.,  N.  l . 


OFFICERS  OF  THE  THIRTY- FOURTH  REGIMENT 


OFFICERS  OF  THE   THIRTY-FOURTH   REGIMENT,  NEW  YORK  VOLUNTEERS, 
WITH  THE  ORDER  OF  THEIR  PROMOTION 

The  officers  belong  to  the  regiment,  and  not  to  the  companies.  Their  service  in  any  particular 
companies  is  a  matter  of  detail  by  the  officer  commanding  the  regiment.  Observe  that  I  do  not 
attempt  to  give  the  detail,  but  only  the  order  of  promotion. 


COLONEL. — William  Ladew,  original.  Resigned, 
March  20,  1862. 

James  A.  Suiter,  from  March  20,  1862.  Re 
signed,  January  22,  1863. 

Byron  Lanin,  from  January  22,  1863,  to  mus 
ter  out,  June  30,  1863. 

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL. — James  A.  Suiter,  orig 
inal,  to  March  20,  1862. 

Byron  Laflin,  from  March  20,  1862,  to  Jan 
uary  22,  1863. 

John  Beverly,  from  January  22,  1863,  to  mus 
ter  out,  June  30,  1863. 

MAJOR. — Byron  Laflin,  original,  to  March  20, 
1862. 

Charles  L.  Brown,  from  March  20,  1862; 
killed  at  Malvern  Hill,  July  i,  1862. 

John  Beverly,  from  July  i,    1862,  to  January 

22,     1863. 

Wells  Sponable,   from  January  22,   1863,  to 
muster  out,  June  30,   1863. 

QUARTERMASTER. — Nathan  Easterbrook,  Jr., 
original,  to  muster  out,  June  30,  1863. 

From  August  i,  1861,  to  November  12,  1862, 
Easterbrook  detached  for  duty  on  staff  of 
General  Willis  A.  Gorman,  during  which 
time  his  department  was  administered  first 
by  First  Lieutenant  E.  R.  Brown,  of  Com 
pany  A,  and  second  by  First  Lieutenant  A. 
T.  Atwood,  of  Company  I. 

ADJUTANT. — George  W.  Thompson,  original. 
Resigned  for  promotion  to  lieutenant- 
colonel,  One  Hundred  and  Fifty-second 
New  York  Volunteers,  January  28,  1863. 

Albert  Doty,  from  January  28,  1863,  to  May 
7,  1863.  Discharged  for  disability. 

John  Kirk,  from  May  7,   1863,  to  muster  out, 

June  30,   1863. 

CHAPLAIN. — John  B.  Van  Petten,  original. 
Resigned,  September  20,  1862.  Subsequent 
service  as  lieutenant-colonel,  One  Hundred 
and  Sixtieth  New  York  Volunteers. 

Sylvester    F.     Schoonmaker,    from    February 

17,  1863,  to  muster  out,  June  30,   1863. 
SURGEON.— Socrates    N.    Sherman,    original,    to 
April   6,   1863.      Resigned   for  promotion  to 
surgeon,   United   States  Volunteers. 

Bradford    S.    Manly,   from    May   12,    1863,   to 

muster   out,   June   30,   1863. 

ASSISTANT  SURGEON. — Edward  S.  Walker,  orig 
inal.  Resigned,  November  3,  1862. 

Brauiord  L.  Manly,  from  August  8,  1862, 
original,  to  May  12,  1863. 

J.  Hervy  Miller,  from  November  3,  1862,  to 
muster  out,  June  30,  1863. 

COMPANY  A. 

CAPTAIN. — William   L.    Oswald,    original.      Dis 
missed,   May  29,    1862. 
Benjamin  H.    Warford,   from   May   29,    1862, 

to  muster   out,   June   30,    1863. 
FIRST  LIEUTENANT. — Elijah  R.  Brown,  original, 

to   muster  out,   June  30,    1863. 
SECOND   LIEUTENANT. — Benjamin    H.    Warford, 

original,   to   May  29,    1862. 
George  H.    Swartwout,    from   May    29,    1862, 

to  January  22,   1863. 

Armineas  S.  Rounds,  from  January  22,  1863, 
to  muster  out,  June  30,  1863. 


COMPANY  B. 

CAPTAIN. — Wells  Sponable,  original,  to  January 

22,  1863. 
Irving   D.    Clark,    from  January  22,    1863,   to 

muster  out,  June  30,  1863. 
FIRST     LIEUTENANT.— John     Fralick,     original. 

Resigned,  December  3,   1862. 
John  Morey,  from  December  3,  1862,  to  mus 
ter  out,  June  30,   1863. 

SECOND  LIEUTENANT. — Irving  D.  Clark,  orig 
inal,  to  June  24,  1862. 

William   Burns,   from  June  24,   1862,  to  mus 
ter  out,  June  30,  1863. 
Michael  S.  O'Brien,  not  mustered. 

COMPANY  C. 

CAPTAIN. — Thomas  Corcoran,  original,  to  mus 
ter  out,  June  30,  1863. 

FIRST  LIEUTENANT. — Samuel  B.  Butler,  orig 
inal,  to  October  18,  1861.  (Transferred  to 
Company  H.) 

Richard  L.  Gorman  (transferred  from  First 
Minnesota),  from  October  18,  1861,  to 
June  24,  1862. 

Irving  D.  Clark,  from  June  24,  1862,  to  Jan 
uary  22,  1863. 

George    H.     Swartwout,     from    January    22, 

1863,  to  muster  out,  June  30,  1863. 
SECOND    LIEUTENANT. — William    S.    Burt,    orig 
inal.     Resigned,  December  18,   1861. 

William  R.  Wallace,  from  December  18, 
1861,  to  January  i,  1863. 

Louis  N.  Chapin,  from  January  i,  1863,  to 
muster  out,  June  30,  1863. 

COMPANY    D. 

CAPTAIN. — Davis  J.   Rich,   original.      Dismissed, 

May  29,    1862. 

John  O.   Scott,   from  May   29,   1862,  to  mus 
ter  out,  June  30,   1863. 
FIRST    LIEUTENANT. — John    O.    Scott,    original, 

to  May  29,  1862. 
Monroe    Brundage,    from    May    29,    1862,    to 

January  i,    1863. 
William  R.    Wallace,   from  January  i,    1863, 

to  muster  out,  June  30,  1863. 
SECOND    LIEUTENANT. — Brinkerhoff,    N.    Miner, 
original,  to  muster  out,  June  30,  1863. 

COMPANY    E. 

CAPTAIN. — Henry   Baldwin,   original,   to  muster 

out,  June  30,   1863. 

FIRST  LIEUTENANT. — John  R.  Carr,  original. 
Died,  October  8,  1861. 

Edwin  F.  Smith,  from  October  8,  1861.  Dis 
charged  for  disability,  October  31,  1862. 

Henry  W.    Sanford,   from  October  31,    1862, 

to    muster    out,    June    30,     1863. 
SECOND    LIEUTENANT. — Edwin    F.    Smith,    orig 
inal,  to  October  8,  1861. 

George  W.  Wildrich,  from  October  8,  1861. 
Resigned,  April  10,  1862. 

John  Morey,  from  April  10,  1862,  to  Decem 
ber  3,  1862. 

John  Oathout,  from  December  3,  1862,  to 
muster  out,  June  30,  1863. 


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HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-FOURTH  REGIMENT 


COMPANY  F. 


CAPTAIN.  —  Charles    Riley,    original,    to    muster 

out,   June   30,    1863. 
FIRST      LIEUTENANT.—  Joseph      R.      Shoemaker, 

original.     Resigned,  July  26,   1862. 
Francis   \V.    Usher,   from  July  26,    1862.     Re 

signed,   October  24,    1862.   Recommissioncd, 

and  served  to  muster  out,  Tune  30,  1863. 
SECOND     LIEUTENANT.  —  \Yilliam      H.      Ileimer, 

original.     Resigned,     December    20,     1861. 

On   records  of   War   Department,  not   com 

missioned. 
Francis  W.  Usher,   from   December   20,    1861 

to  July   26,    1862. 
\\"illiam   S.    Van  Yalkenburgh,   from  July   26, 

1862,  to  January  28,   1863. 
Simon   P.   Mclntyre,   from  January  28,    1863 

to  muster  out,  June   30,    1863. 

COMPANY    G. 

CAPTAIN.  —  Charles      L.      Brown,      original,      to 

March   20,  1862.      Promoted  major. 
Joy    E.    Johnson,    from    March    20,    1862,    to 

muster  out,  June  30,   1863. 
FIRST    LIEUTENANT.  —  Warren    Mack,    Jr.,    orig 

inal.     Resigned,   December   2,   1861. 
Joy    E.   Johnson,    from    December   2,    1861,  to 

March  20,   1862. 
Albert    Doty,    from    March    20,    1862.        Pro 

moted  adjutant,  January  22,    1863. 
\\  illiani   S.    Yan   Yalkenburgh,    from  January 

28,   1863,  to  muster  out,  June  30,   1863. 
SECOND        LIEUTENANT.—  Michael         Schaffner, 

original.      Resigned,    December   u,    1861. 
William    M.     Mclnnis,     from     December     n, 

1861.      Dismissed,  May  27,    1862. 
Orrin  W.  Beach,  from  May  27,   1862,  to  mus 

ter  out,  June  30,   1863. 

COMPANY    H. 

CAPTAIN.  —  Leland   L.    Doolittle,    original.       Re 

signed,  October  18,   1861. 
Samuel    P.    Butler,    from    October    18,     1861. 

Resigned,   November   n,   1862. 
William  S.  Walton,  from  November  n,   1862, 

to  muster  out,  June  30,    1863. 
FIRST  LIEUTENANT.-—  John  B.   Wright,  original, 

to   October    18,   1861. 
David    L.    Lawton,    from    October     18,    1861. 

Resigned,   December   11,    1861. 
John   Kirk,   from   December   11,    1861.      Made 

adjutant,  May   7,   1863. 


SECOND  LIEUTENANT. — David  L.  Lawton  orig 
inal,  to  October  18,  1861. 

Clarence  E.  Hill,  from  October  18,  1861. 
Killed  at  Antietam,  September  17,  1862. 

James  McCormick,  from  September  17,  1862 
to  March  16,  1863. 

William  Kirk,  from  March  16,  1863  to 
muster  out,  June  30,  1863. 


CAPTAIN.  —  William     H.     King,     original         Re 
signed,   January    i,   1863. 

Monroe  Brundage,  from  January  i,  1863,  to 
March  17,  1863.  Resigned  on  account  of 
wounds  received  at  Antietam. 

Eugene  B.  Larrowe,  from  March   17,   1863,  to 

muster  out,  June  30,   1863. 

FIRST    LIEUTENANT. — Alfred    T.    Atwooj,    orig 
inal,   to  muster  out,  June  30,    1863. 
SECOND    LIEUTENANT. — M'onroe    Brundage,  orig 
inal,  to  May  30,   1862. 

Henry  W.  Sanford,  from  May  30,  1862,  to 
October  31,  1862. 

Melville  S.  Dunn,  from  October  31,  1862,  to 
muster  out,  June  30,  1863. 


COMPANY    K. 

CAPTAIN. — John    Beverly,    original,    to    July    i, 

1862. 
Emerson    S.    Northup,    from   July    i,    1862,   to 

muster  out,  June  30,   1863.' 
FIRST     LIEUTENANT. — Henry     B.     Chamberlain, 

original.      Resigned,    November   22,    1861. 
Emerson     S.     Northup,     from     November     22, 

1861,  to   July    i,    1862. 

William    S.    Walton,    from   July    i,     1862,    to 
__  November  1 1,   1862. 
Eugene     B.     Larrowe,     from     November     11, 

1862,  to  March   16.   1863. 

James   McCormick,    from   March    16,    1863,  to 

muster  out,  June   30,    1863. 
SECOND     LIEUTENANT. — Emerson     S.     Northup, 

original,   to   November   22,   1861. 
William  S.  Walton,  from  November  22,  1861, 

to  July  i,  1862. 
Eugene    B.    Larrowe,    from    July    i,    1862,    to 

December    13,    1862. 
George    B.   Coates.   from   December    13,    1862, 

to  muster  out,   June   30,   1863. 


COMPLETE  ROSTER  OF  THE  THIRTY- 
FOURTH    REGIMENT 

THE  comrades  will  understand  that  the  dates  of  enlistment  given 
in  the  following"  roster  may  not  be  the  dates  when  they  actually 
enlisted.  The  dates  of  enlistment  here  given  are  the  dates  of 
muster  into  the  state  service.  For  instance,  Captain  Baldwin,  of  Com 
pany  E,  put  his  own  name  down  April  17,  1861,  and  other  men  followed 
him  during  each  day  thereafter;  but  not  until  May  18  was  the  company 
mustered  into  the  state  service.  This  ceremony  \vas  performed  by  Col 
onel  George  S.  Ellas,  of  Bath,  and  all  the  men  that  day  mustered  would 
rind  May  18  to  be  the  dates  of  their  enlistment,  which  was  officially, 
but  not  technically  correct.  The  same  is  true  in  regard  to  every  other 
company  named  in  the  roster.  We  make  this  statement  because  very 
many  of  the  comrades  are  justly  proud  of  having  been  very  prompt  and 
early  in  their  enlistments,  and  the  dates  given  below  do  not  do  them 
justice.  Likewise  in  regard  to  the  ages  given  in  these  lists.  The  age 
limit  at  which  a  soldier  could  be  received  into  the  service  was  18 
years.  Therefore  the  State  honors  its  enactments  by  making  it  appear 
that  no  man  was  received  under  that  age ;  whereas  there  can  be  no 
doubt  that  many  of  the  Thirty-fourth  boys  were  considerably  under 
that  figure.  For  example,  Solon  S.  Pickert,  of  Company  K,  was  but 
14  years  old  when  he  enlisted,  as  his  wife  writes  us;  and  yet  we  find 
the  age  given  in  the  Albany  records  as  19.  And  so  with  many  other  com 
rades,  no  doubt.  Mrs.  Pickert  writes  us  that  Solon  enlisted  in  August, 
1861,  and  yet  the  records  state  October  18,  which  may  have  been  the 
date  of  his  muster.  She  adds  that  "she  had  often  heard  him  tell  how, 
at  Albany,  at  the  time  of  muster,  he  was  at  the  foot  of  the  line,  and 
the  mustering  officer  spoke  to  him,  and  said,  'you  are  a  pretty  soldier ; 
you  had  better  be  at  home  with  your  mother;'  whereupon  the  Captain 
spoke  up  and  said,  'He  is  my  boy;  I  will  take  care  of  him ;'  so  the  mus 
tering  officer  passed  on.  Solon  wras  very  much  afraid  he  would  be  sent 
home."  But  the  boy  Solon  seems  not  to  have  had  enough  of  soldier 
life  with  the  Thirty- fourth,  for  in  August,  1863,  following  our  mus 
ter  out,  he  re-enlisted  in  the  Sixteenth  Artillery,  and  stayed  in  till  the 
war  was  over.  We  mention  these  details  because  the  case  is  a  typical 
one.  There  were  plenty  of  these  boys  in  the  service,  and  they  could 
hold  a  gun  as  steady,  and  fire  as  straight,  as  the  older  men.  In  fact, 
the  boys  saved  the  country.  How  many  times,  in  the  course  of  this 
history,  we  have  wished  we  could  trace"  the  steps  of  every  individual 
boy  and  man,  and  tell  the  simple  story  of  his  experience  from  the  time 
he  entered  the  service,  not  simply  until  he  vanished  from  our  sight, 
at  the  muster  out,  but  onward  until,  as  in  so  many  other  cases,  he 
parted  from  his  wife,  his  children  and  his  friends,  at  the  river's  brink. 
Each  individual  life  is  a  separate  history ;  but  it  can  never  be  written. 


n6  HISTORY  OF   THE   THIRTY-FOURTH    REGIMENT 

How  have  they  scattered  over  the  face  of  the  earth,  these  soldier  boys. 
And  wherever  they  may  be,  they  are  still  fighting  the  course  that  to 
all  of  us  is  a  battle. 

Then  there  are  the  deserters;  what  shall  we  say  about  them?  In 
some  respects  their  cases  are  the  most  pathetic  of 'all.  For  by  their 
conduct  they  expatriated  themselves  from  the  country  that  was  won, 
and  justly  belongs,  only  to  the  brave  and  the  true.  Yet  many  of  these 
men  left  their  regiment  after  they  had  fought  in  some  of  the  battles, 
and  served  in  many  hardships,  as  bravely  and  well  as  any  others.  And 
what  can  we  say  when  we  find  that  some  of  these  men  re-enlisted  in 
other  regiments,  in  which  they  served  their  country  well,  and  to-day 
are  receiving  pensions  on  account  of  honorable  wounds  ?  Many  times 
it  was  homesickness  drove  these  men  away.  They  longed  for  home, 
and  for  a  time  forgot  their  duty  and  their  honor,  and  were  recreant  to 
both.  Then  when  they  had  gone  away,  they  repented,  and  wanted 
to  return,  but  thought  they  would  be  punished  if  they  did;  and  so 
drifted  to  other  regiments.  We  wish  it  were  possible  to  go  through 
these  lists  and  strike  out  the  hated  word  "deserter"  from  the  record 
of  every  man  who  really  does  not  deserve  it.  But  our  information 
is  too  limited,  and  makes  such  a  task  impossible.  Therefore,  we  shall 
have  to  let  the  records  stand  as  they  are.  We  wish  no  part  or  lot  in 
perpetuating  the  punishment  of  these  men. 

In  spite  of  the  fact  that  much  has  been  done  to  purify  these  lists, 
we  know  that  they  still  contain  a  great  many  errors.  We  have  sub 
mitted  them  to  quite  a  number  of  the  old  officers,  and  have  tried  very 
hard,  by  correspondence  and  otherwise,  to  winnow  out  the  mistakes ; 
but  though  we  have  removed  scores  of  them,  scores  of  others  still 
remain.  We  are  sorry  this  is  so;  but  it  has  seemed  impossible  to 
remove  them  all.  The  comrades,  therefore,  who  may  find  errors  in 
their  records,  will  have  to  be  indulgent.  The  department  at  Albany 
spells  some  comrades'  names  three  and  four  different  ways.  And 
there  are  other  errors  still  more  important.  The  lists,  such  as  they 
are,  are  respectfully  submitted. 

Some  of  the  companies  in  the  Thirty-fourth  were  organized  first 
under  the  old  militia  regulation,  requiring  but  33  men  in  a  company. 
This  explains  why,  for  instance,  the  Little  Falls  companies  left  for 
Albany  when  they  were  still  so  small.  But  afterward,  at  Albany,  all 
the  companies  that  lacked  had  to  be  recruited  up  to  the  new  standard 
of  77  men  each.  Afterward  the  new  regiments  used  to  come  south 
1010  men  strong.  This  was  because  of  a  still  later  regulation  requir 
ing  each  company  to  contain  101  men. 


ROSTER  OF  THE  REGIMENT 


117 


GENERAL  ROSTER 


ACKER,  HORACE.— Age,  34  years.  Enlisted, 
October  14,  1862,  at  Warren,  to  serve  three 
years;  mustered  in,  unassigned,  same  date; 
no  further  record. 

ACKER,  MATTHEW.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Middleville,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
X.  Y. ;  also  borne  as  Matthew  Ackler. 

ADAMS,  AMOS  B.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861 ;  transfer 
red,  October  6,  1861,  to  the  regular  army; 
re-transferred  to  company,  August  9,  1862; 
mustered  out.  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

ADLE,  HENRY.— Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Oneida,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861;  wounded, 


D,  same  date:  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  X.  Y. 

AMBRECHT,  CEASAR.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861  ; 
wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 
Md. ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  X.  Y.;  subsequent  service  in  Co.  A, 
Fifteenth  Artillery. 

AMSDEX,  JOHX  B.— Age,  43  years.  En 
listed,  May  1 8,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  15,  1861; 
deserted,  April  15,  1862. 

AXDREWS,  CHARLES  F.— Age,  18  years 
Enlisted,  May  10,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
X.  Y. 


mustered  m,  Co.  G,  June  15,  i»6i;  wounaea,  A.  y. 

May   31,   1862,   at  Fair   Oaks,   Va.;    mustered  AXDREWS,    JOSEPH.— Age,    27   years.       En- 
out,   Tune   30,    1863,  at   Albany,    X.    Y. ;   sub-  listed,  May  18,   1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve 

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seque'nt  service  in  Co.  A,  Fifteenth  New 
York  Cavalry. 

ADLE,  JOHX  H.— Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Oneida,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861 ;  killed, 
September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. 

ALBEE,  EMERSOX  W.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  1 8,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861; 
promoted  corporal,  date  not  stated;  reduced 
to  ranks,  at  his  own  request,  September  15, 
1862;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 

ALDERMAN,  WILLIAM.— Age,  27  years. 
Enlisted,  August  i,  1861,  at  Brockett's 
Bridge,  to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  K,  same  date;  discharged  for  disability, 
February  27,  1863,  at  Xew  York  city. 

ALDRICH,  ADEX  T.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  Tuscarora,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  October  i,  1861; 
since  died. 

ALLEN,  DEXXIS.— Age,  29  years.  Enlisted, 
May  14,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  i86ij  died,  July 
2.  1862,  at  Harrison's  Landing,  Va. 

ALLEX,  HEXRY.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
August  5,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
three  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  same  date; 
transferred,  March  i,  1862,  to  Co.  C;  died  of 
disease,  August  9,  1862,  at  Xew  York  city. 

ALLEX,  JAMES.— Age,  27  years.  Enlisted, 
Xovember  19,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  same  date; 
discharged,  October  24,  1862,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y.,  for  wounds  received  at  Fair  Oaks, 
Va.,  June  28,  1862. 

ALLEX",  RUSSELL.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
November  19,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  B,  same  date;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

ALLEX,  WILLIAM.— Age,  35  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  X.  Y.  Since  died. 

ALLEX,  WILLIAM.— Age,  28  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861; 
killed,  September  17.  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. 

ALTY,  EDWARD.— Age,  24  years.  Enlisted, 
October  17,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  un 
expired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 


two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  15,  1861; 
corporal,  date  not  stated;  sergeant,  June  8, 
1862;  wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  An 
tietam,  Md. ;  promoted,  first  sergeant,  Decem 
ber  i,  1862;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  X.  Y.  Since  died. 

ARMOUR,  DAVID.— Age,  20  years.  Enlisted, 
June  14,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  16,  1861 ;  killed, 
September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. 

ARMSTROXG,  ED\VARD.— Age,  22  years. 
Enlisted,  June  30,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  same  date; 
deserted,  August  28,  1862,  at  Alexandria, 

ARXOLD,  ALBERT.— Age,  25  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  sergeant,  Co.  G, 
June  15,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
"at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

ASHLEY,  JACOB  J.— Age,  30  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Graysville,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  sergeant,  Co.  C, 
June"  15,  1861;  killed,  September  17,  1862, 
at  Antietam,  Md. 

ATWOOD,  ALFRED  T.— Age,  26  years.  En 
rolled,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsp9rt,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in  as  first  lieuten 
ant,  Co.  I,  June  15,  1861;  mustered  out,  June 
30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

AUMICK,  JAMES  M.— Age,  26  years.  En 
listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged,  January  10,  1863,  for  wounds  re 
ceived  at  Antietam,  Md. 

BACK,  JOHX  H.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861;  dis 
charged,  for  disability,  July  2,  1861,  as  John 
Back. 

B  \COX,  WILLIAM.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted, 
May  10,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
X.  Y. 

BAKER,  DELAZON  S.— Age,  29  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15, 
1861;  died  of  disease,  Xovember  13,  1862,  at 
Harper's  Ferry,  Va. 

B  \LDWIX.  HEXRY.— Age,  28  years.  En 
rolled,  May  1 8,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  captain,  Co.  fc, 


HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-FOURTH  REGIMENT 


June    15,    1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,   1861 
at   Albany,    X.    Y.  ;    died   at   Addison,   X     Y 


.  , 

er  I5'  l895'  See  biography. 
IN,  HORACE  D.-Age;  ,22  years. 
Enlisted,  May  18,  1861,  at  Woodlnill,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  E 
June  15.  1861;  discharged,  October  31,  1861, 
at  Seneca  Mills,  Md. 

BALDWIN,  LEONARD  O.—  Age,  20  years 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  Tune 
J5.  1  86  1  ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 

BALLAD  'STEPHEN  ANDREw.-Age,  is 

years.    Enlisted,  May    i,   1861,  at   Eittle   Falls, 
to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June 
15,     1861;    wounded    and    missing,     May     11 
1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,   Va. 

BALLARD,  THOMAS  T.-Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861  ; 
discharged  for  disability,  Tune  25,  1861,  at 
Albany,  X.  Y. 

BALLARD,  WILLIAM  HEXRY.—  Age  21 
years.  Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls 
to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June 
15,  1861;  wounded,  September  17,  i86>  at 
Antietam,  Md.;  mustered  out.  Tune  30,  186-? 
at  Albany,  X.  Y.,  as  William  Ballard. 

\!LEV>    U»iVID-TAge'  26  vears'      Enlisted, 
May  10,   1861,  at  Albanv,  to  serve  two  years- 
mustered    in,    Co.    F,    June    15,    1861;      mus 
tered  out,  June  30,   1863,  at  Albany,   X    Y 
BAILEY,    FRAXCIS  R.—  Age,   24  years       Fn- 
hsted,   May   i,    1861,  at    Middleville,   to   serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June   ic,  1861- 
corporal,  date  not  stated;   mustered  out    Tune 
Albany'    X'    Y"  as   Francis   K. 


BAILEY  GEORGE.-  Age,  25  years.  Enlisted, 
November  3,  1861,  at  Herki'mer,  to  serve  two 

y!2rs;  ,?™,1Strr<^    in'    Co-    G'    November    10, 

T,.I^IT,;.5l1^  °f  disease,  July   t,  1862. 

BAILEY  HENRY.-Age,  44  years.  Enlisted, 
September  28,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  October  16, 
?86l;A  filled,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antie 
tam,  Md. 

BAILEY,  ISAAC  -Age,  ,8  years.  Enlisted, 
-May  i,  1  86  1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two  years- 
mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y.  ;  subse 
quent  service  in  Sixteenth  Xew  York  Artil 
lery,  as  Isaac  B.  Bailey 

BAILEY  WILLIAM  R.-Age,  23  years.  En- 
hsted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861- 
wounded  September  i,  1861,  at  Seneca  Mills, 

P  VTTTJ'v£^d^TTS5lJ  place  not  stated. 

BAILEY  ETT,  GILBERT.—  Age,  22  years.  En- 

listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  Tune  is,  1861- 
corporal  date  not  stated;  wounded,  at  Fair 
Oaks,  \a.,  May  31,  1862;  discharged  for  dis- 
abil£y,  October  15,  -1862,  at  Washington, 

BANGS,  GEORGE  X.-Age,  28  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861  ; 
died  of  disease,  November  5,  1862,  at  Har 
per  s  rcrry,  Va. 

BANKS,  HARRISON  L.—  Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Fairfield,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  C,  June 
15,  1861:  reduced,  date  not  stated;  dis 
charged  for  disability,  March  17,  186-?  at 
rulmouth,  Va. 

BARtG,°'  VALENTINE.-  Age,  33  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1  86  1,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15,  1861; 


mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N .  \ . ;  subsequent  service,  Co.  D,  Sixteenth 
New  York  Artillery. 

HARKER,  JOHN  A.— Age,  23  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  i86i,at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  Tune  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  June  25,  1861,  at 
Ainany,  N.  Y. 

BARNES,  LOREN.— Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1 86 1,  at  Hammondsport,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15,  1861; 
died,  August  8,  1862,  in  hospital,  Fort  Mon 
roe,  Va.,  of  wounds  received  at  White  Oak 
Swamp,  Ya. 

BARNETT,  WILLIAM  H.-Age,  24  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co. 
H,  June  15,  1861;  sergeant,  date  not  stated; 
discharged  for  disability,  June  25,  1861,  at 
Albany,  X.  Y 

BARNEY,  EDGAR  E.— Age,  24  years.  En 
listed,  April  i,  1862,  at  Lenox,  to  serve  three 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  same  date;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. ; 
subsequent  service  in  Co.  E,  Fourteenth  New 
York  Artillery. 

BARNEY,  NELSON  M.— Age,  25  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Ticonderoga,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861  ; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 

BARSALOU,  GEORGE.— Age,  28  years.  En 
listed,  October  14,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  D,  October  16,  1861;  wounded  at  An 
tietam,  Md.,  September  17,  1862;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y'. 

BARTLETT,  WILLIAM  H.— Age,  44  years. 
Enlisted,  May  18,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to 
serve  two  vears;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  15, 
1861^  died,  October  i,  1862,  at  West  Troy, 

BARTON,  CHARLES  B.— Age,  25  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Graysville,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  sergeant,  Co.  C, 
June  15,  1861  ;  wounded,  September  17,  1862, 
at  Antietam,  Md. ;  discharged,  January  24, 
1863,  at  United  States  General  Hospital, 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  by  reason  of  such  wounds. 

BARTOX,  THEODORE  T.— Age,  19  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June 
15,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y.,  as  Theodore  F.  Barton. 

BATCHELDER,  JOHN  R.— Age,  24  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  private,  Co.  F, 
June  15,  1861;  discharged  for  disability,  No 
vember  i,  1862,  at  Point  Lookout,  Md. ;  also 
Lome  as  John  R.  Batchelder. 

BATCHER,  JACOB.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 

BATES,  JAMES  H.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
May  1 8,  1861,  at  Troupsburg,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861; 
transferred  to  Gunboat  Flotilla,  Department 
of  the  West,  February  8,  1862;  subsequent 
service  in  Co.  G,  Second  Xew  York  Veteran 
Cavalry;  since  died. 

BATES,  G.  ROSWELL.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Ticonderoga,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861  ; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 
Since  died. 


ROSTER   OF    THE    REGIMENT 


BATKY,  EI)\VI\  F.— Age,  24  years.  Enlisted. 
June  1 6,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  A,  same  date;  corporal, 
December  i,  1862;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  X.  V..  as  Edward  F.  Beaty. 

BAUDER,  WEBSTER.— Age.  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  February  19,  1863, 
at  Providence,  R.  1. 

BEACH,  ORRIX  W.— Age,  31  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  sergeant,  Co.  B,  June 
15.  1861;  first  sergeant,  date  not  stated;  sec 
ond  lieutenant,  Co.  G,  May  30,  1862;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  V. 
Subsequent  service  as  Major.  Sixteenth 
Heavy  Artillery. 

BECKER,  DANIEL  M.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  15,  1861; 
corporal,  date  not  stated;  quartermaster-ser 
geant,  October  i,  1862;  mustered  out,  June 
30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  V.  Since  died. 

BEARDSLEV,  JOHN'.—  Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G.  June  15,  1861  ; 
killed.  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. ; 
also  borne  as  Tobn  Bardslee. 

BEDUXAH,  HOSEA.— Age,  46  years.  En 
listed,  Xovember  28,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  same 
date;  discharged  for  disability,  March  30, 

1862,  at   Washington,    D.   C. 

BEEBE,  SILAS.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
May  10,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861  ; 
discharged  for  disability,  December  21,  1861, 
at  Poolsville,  Md. 

BEERS,  GEORGE  W. -Age,  31  years.  En 
listed,  June  5,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861; 
wounded,  September  17,  1862,'  at  Antietam, 
Md.;  discharged  for  disability,  February  10, 

1863,  at    Philadelphia,    Pa.;    died    January    i, 
1863. 

BELL,  PHILO  H.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861; 
sergeant,  date  not  stated;  reduced  at  his  own 
request,  and  transferred,  February  17,  1862, 
to  Western  Gunboat  Flotilla;  served  on  flag 
ship  Bentoii,  Miss.  Squadron. 

BELLFIELD,  ISAIAH.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1863,  at  Stockbridge,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861; 
transferred  to  Co.  H,  April  i,  1862;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30.  1863,  at  Albany,  X'.  Y. ; 
subsequent  service  in  Fifteenth  Cavalrv. 

BEXCHLEY,  WILLETT  H.— Age,  22  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Xewport,  to  serve 
two  years:  mustered  in,  Co.  G.June  15,  1861  ; 
discharged,  Xovember  27,  1862,  for  wounds 
received  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 

BEX  EDICT,  LEOXARD  H.— Age,  18  years. 
Enlisted,  May  18,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
X.  Y. ;  since  died. 

BEXEDICT,  LUTHER  LAXGDOX.— Age,  25 
years.  Enlisted,  May  i.  1861,  at  Little  Falls, 
to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June 
15,  1861;  transferred  to  Co.  K,  June  18, 
1 86 1,  and  to  Fifth  United  States  Cavalry, 
October  9,  1861. 

BEXHAM,  LEMUEL  C.— Age,  25  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in  as  sergeant, 
Co.  I,  June  15,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863.  at  Albany.  X.  Y. 


L.— Age, 

listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Graysville,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861  ; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 

BEXXETT,    BEXJAMIX    F.— Age,    23    years. 
Enlisted,  May   i,   1861,  at  Graysville,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out  June  30,   1863,  at  Albany,  X  Y 
since  killed   on   railroad. 

BEXXETT,  JULIUS  F.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  June  25,  1861,  at 
Albany,  X.  Y. 

BEXXETT,  JASOX  H.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Graysville,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861; 
died  of  disease,  December  18,  1861,  at  Camp 
McClellan,  Md. 

BEXXETT,  LOREXZO  D.— Age,  35  years.  En 
listed,  December  i,  1862,  at  Canajoharie,  to 
serve  three  years;;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  same 
date;  deserted,  May  9,  1863,  at  Falmouth, 
Ya. 

BEXSOX,  THOMAS.— Age,  —  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861  ; 
transferred  to  Regular  Army,  October  6, 
1861. 

BERGEX,  PATRICK.— Age,  43  years.  En 
listed,  June  15,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  same 
date;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany. 
X.  Y.  Died  in  Soldiers'  Home,  Bath,  X.  Y. 

BEVERLY,  JOHX.— Age,  36  years.  Enrolled, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Brockett's  Bridge,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  captain,  Co.  K, 
June  15,  1861;  major,  July  i,  1862;  lieutenant 
colonel,  January  22,  1863;  mustered  out, 
June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

BIGALOW,  ORYILLE  C.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861  , 
wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 
Md.;  discharged  for  disability,  March  3,  1863, 
at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

BILLINGS,  HARRISOX.— Age,  28  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861.  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861 ; 
corporal,  date  not  stated;  sergeant,  March  i, 
1862;  first  sergeant,  date  not  stated;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  XT.  Y. 

BIRCHARD,  DANIEL.— Age,  32  years.  En 
listed,  May  1 8,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15, 
1861;  discharged  for  disability,  February  10, 
1862. 

BIRCHARD,  JOHX.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  Rathbone,  to  servx- 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861: 
died  of  disease,  January  9,  1862,  at  Rath- 
boneville,  X.  Y. 

BLAXCHARD,  JOHX  B.— Age,  19  years.     En 
listed,  May   22,    1861,   at   Champlain,   to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15.  i8*i 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  ^  . 

BLAXCHARD.  OSCAR  D.— Age,  18  years. 
Enlisted,  May  18,  1861.  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  L, 
June  15,  1861;  reduced  at  his  own  request, 
date  not  stated:  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albany,  X.  Y. ;  since  died. 

BLAXCHARD,  ZELOTUS.— Age,  19  years. 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D  June 
15  1861;  wounded,  September  17,  1862  at 
•\ntietam,  Md. ;  mustered  out,  June  30.  186.3, 
at  -Mbany,  X.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in 
Co  C  Eighteenth  Xew  York  Cavalry. 


12O 


HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-FOURTH  REGIMENT 


BLONDIN,  WILLIAM  H.— Age,  20  years. 
Enlisted,  June  15,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  same  date; 
transferred  to  United  States  Cavalry,  Octo 
ber  13,  1861. 

BOGARDUS,  HENRY  E.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  Tuscarora,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861; 
corporal,  date  not  stated;  sergeant,  May  30, 
1862;  wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  An 
tietam,  Md. ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. 

BOH,  MARTIN.— Age,  20  years.  Enlisted, 
May  7,  1861,  at  Graysville,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861, 
wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 
Md. ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y. ;  also  borne  as  Martin  Boah  and  Boath. 

BOOTH,  JOHN  T.— Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Paine's  Hollow,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  F,  June 
15,  1861;  reduced  at  his  own  request,  date 
not  stated;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. 

BOWEN,  STEPHEN.— Age,  43  years.  En 
listed,  November  7,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  same 
date;  discharged  for  disability,  March  20, 
1863. 

BOWERS,  HENRY.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y. ;  since  died. 

BOYER,  ANDREW.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted, 
May  1 8,  1861,  at  Rathbone,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

BRADBURY,  ROBERT.— Age,  28  years.  En 
listed,  March  3,  1862,  at  Lenox,  to  serve  un- 
expired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in  Co.  G, 
same  date;  corporal,  January  22,  1863;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

BRADLEY,  JOSEPH.— Age,  23  years.  En 
listed,  October  10,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  Octo 
ber  1 6,  1861;  transferred  to  the  Regular 
Army,  November  23,  1862. 

BRAMLEY,  HENRY.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861; 
wounded,  date  and  place  not  stated;  killed, 
September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Aid. 

BRENNAN,  JOHN.— Age,  24  years.  Enlisted, 
November  21,  1861,  at  Fonda,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  same  date; 
wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 
Md. ;  discharged  for  such  wounds,  December 


. 

19     years.     En 


two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15, 
1861;  killed,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks, 
Va. 

BREWER.  SIDNEY.—  Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1  86  1,  at  Stockbridge,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861  ; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y.  ;  subsequent  service  in  Co.  K,  Fifteenth 


12,  1862,  at  Washington,  D.  C. 
BREWER,     MILTON.—  Age,     1 

listed,  May  22,    1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 


FREDERICK.—  Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15, 
1861;  died  of  disease,  March  21,  1862,  at 
Bolivar,  Va. 

BRIGGS,  GEORGE  R.—  Age,  25  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861; 
corporal  and  reduced,  dates  not  stated;  de 
serted,  August  19,  1862,  at  Yorktown,  Va. 


BRIGGS,  SILAS  J.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted, 
July  27,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  E,  same  date;  died  of  dis 
ease,  April  30,  1863,  at  Fort  Monroe,  Ya. 

BRITTAN,  JAMES  A.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  1 8,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  15,  1861; 
appointed  musician,  date  not  stated;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. ; 
subsequent  service  in  Seventh  New  York. 
Artillery. 

BROAD  WELL,  WILLIAM  H.— Age,  28  years. 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861 ; 
cornoral,  reduced,  dates  not  stated;  captured 
and  paroled,  dates  not  stated;  deserted,  Au 
gust  12,  1862,  at  Fort  Monroe,  Va. 

BROODER,  JOSEPH.— Age,  16  years.  En 
listed,  June  27,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  un- 
expired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in  as 
drummer,  Co.  C,  same  date;  mustered  out, 
June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y.,  as  Joseph 
Brodier;  also  borne  as  Joseph  Bouder  and. 
Joseph  Bruder. 

BROOKS,  HENRY.— Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Morris,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

BROWN,  CHARLES  L.— Age,  34  years.  En 
rolled,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  captain,  Co.  G, 
June  15,  1861  ;  as  major,  March  20,  1862; 
wounded,  July  i,  1862,  at  Malvern  Hill,  Va. ; 
died  of  such  wounds,  July  3,  1862. 

BROWN,  ELIJAH  R.— Age,  40  years.  En 
rolled,  May  18,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  first  lieutenant,  Co. 
A,  June  15,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. ;  dead  a  number  of 
years. 

BROWN,  GEORGE  H.— Age,  44  years.  En 
listed,  November  19,  1861,  at  Wells,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  same  date; 
discharged  for  disability,  March  30,  1862,  at 
Washington,  D.  C. 

BROWN,  TAMES.— Age,  27  years.  Enlisted, 
October  16,  1861,  at  Jersey  City,  N.  J.,  to- 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  K,  same  date;  corporal  and  reduced,, 
dates  not  stated;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

BROWN,  LEANDER  D.— Age,  18  years.  En- 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

BRUNDAGE,  AZARIAH  C— Age,  24  years. 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  corporal,  Co. 
I,  June  15,  1861;  discharged,  July  24,  1862, 
at  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  for  wounds  received, 
May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. 

BRUNDAGE,  MONROE.— Age,  24  years.  En 
rolled,  May  22,  1 86 1,  at  Bath,  to  serve  two 
years;  mus'tered  in  as  second  lieutenant,  Co. 
T,  June  15,  1861;  as  first  lieutenant,  Co.  D, 
May  30,  1862;  as  captain,  Co.  T,  January  i, 
1863;  wounded  at  Antietam,  Md.,  September 
17,  1862;  discharged  by  reason  of  such 
wounds,  March  17,  1863. 

BRYANT,  JOHN  W.— Age,  31  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  New  Berlin,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
transferred  to  United  States  Cavalry,  October 
12,  1861. 

BRYANT,  SCHUYLER  I.— Age,  24  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in.  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
transferred  to  Co.  C.  September  i,  1861,  and" 
to  gunboat  service,  February  17,  1862;  also- 
borne  as  Schuyler  J.  Bryant. 


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121 


BUCK,  JR.,  HIRAM.— Age,  —  years.  En 
rolled,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  first  lieutenant,  Co. 
H;  resigned,  to  date,  June  30,  1861. 

BUCK,  JOHN  R.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
May  1 8,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861; 
died,  June  5,  1862,  at  New  York  city,  of 
wounds  received  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. 

BUCK,  MARTIN.— Age,  20  years.  Enlisted, 
May  1 8,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  15,  1861; 
killed,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. 

BUCKMAN,  CHARLES  F.—  Age,  21  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June 
15,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. ;  since  died. 

BULLOCK,  CHAUNCY.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  November  i,  1861,  at  Gray,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  Co.  C,  same  date;  died 
of  disease,  July  29,  1862,  at  Harrison's  Land- 

BUlfLOCk,  MILFORD  N.— Age,  19  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Stratford,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
killed,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. 

BURD,  DANIEL  F.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15,  1861; 
promoted  corporal,  November  23,  1862;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

BURDICK,  BENEDICT  A.— Age,  26  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged,  date  and  place  not  stated. 

BURK,  HIRAM  (IST).— Age,  45  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  musician,  Co.  K, 
June  15,  1861;  discharged  for  disability, 
November  22.  1861. 

BURK,  HIRAM  (20).— Age,  30  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Oppenheim,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15,  1861  ; 
dishonorably  discharged  for  murder,  October 
i,  1861. 

BURLINGAME,  ORSON.— Age,  26  years. 
Enlisted,  May  18,  1861,  at  Rathbone,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861  : 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in  Co.  G,  Second 
New  York  Veteran  Cavalry. 

BURNAP,  JOHN  R.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve  two  years: 
mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

BURNS,  ALMERON  S.— Age,  28  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861; 
corporal,  November  14,  1862;  mustered  out, 
Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

BURNS,  GEORGE  W.  -Age,  42  years.  En- 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Ticonderoga,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15, 
1861:  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y.  Since  died. 

BURNS,  WILLIAM.— Age,  20  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  K,  June  15, 
1861;  first  sergeant,  June  i,  1862;  lost  left 
arm,  June  30,  1862,  at  Glendale,  Va. ;  second 
lieutenant,  Co.  B,  December  23,  1862;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

BURT.  BENJAMIN  F.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  1 8,  1861,  at  Tuscarora,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  E, 
June  15,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albany,  N.  Y. ;  since  died. 


KURT,  WILLIAM  S.— Age,  29  years.  En 
rolled,  May  i,  1861,  at  Grayville,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  second  lieutenant, 
Co.  C,  June  15,  1861;  resigned,  December  18, 
1861;  subsequent  service  as  captain  in  i52<! 


Regt.,    N.    Y.    Volunteers. 

rolled,    May    i,    1861,    at    Fairfield,    to    serve 


Kegt.,    A 
iUTLER, 


SAMUEL  P.— Age,  26  years.     En- 


two  years;  mustered  in  as  first  lieutenant,  Co. 
C,  June  13,  1861;  captain,  Co.  H,  January  i, 
1862;  resigned,  November  11,  1862. 

CADY,  LOREN  E.— Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Oneida,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861 ;  wounded, 
May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Ya. ;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

CAHOON,  GEORGE.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in  Twenty-second 
Cavalry. 

CALL1HAN,  JAMES.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15,  1861 ; 
deserted,  October  3,  1861,  at  Seneca  Mills, 
Md. 

CAMERA,  ELL— Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1861,  at  Rouse's  Point,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

CAMERON,  DONALD.— Age,  27  years.  En 
listed,  October  7,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  A,  same  date;  wounded,  September  17, 
1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. ;  discharged,  date  and 
place  not  stated. 

CAMPBELL,  ISAAC  G.— Age,  23  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Newport,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861 ; 
corporal,  December  2,  1861;  sergeant,  Decem 
ber  8,  1861;  wounded,  June  30,  1862,  at 
White  Oak  Swamp,  Va. ;  mustered  out,  June 


30,   1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

;AMPBELL,  JOHN  j.— Age, 


CAMPBELL.  JOHN  J.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  June  20,  1 86 1,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  E,  June  23,  1861;  discharged,  September 
18,  1862,  for  wounds  received  at  White 
House,  Va. ;  subsequent  service  in  Co.  G, 
Second  New  York  Cavalry. 

CAMPBELL,  LEVI  C.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N. 
Y. ;  since  died. 

CAMPBELL,  WILLIAM.— Age,  18  years. 
Enlisted,  May  18,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June 
15,  1861:  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. 

CAMPION,  JOHN.— Age,  28  years.  Enlisted, 
June  1 6,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  B,  same  date;  corporal,  May 
13.  1862;  wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at 
Antietam,  Md.;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

CANANN,  DENNIS.— Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  B,  June 
IS,  1861;  reduced,  May  13.  1862;  captured, 
June  30,  1862,  at  White  Oak  Swamp,  Va. ; 
naroled,  date  not  stated;  discharged  for  dis 
ability,  December  i,  1862,  at  Alexandria,  Va. 

CANE,  JAMES  S.— Age,  20  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i  1 86 1,  at  Charlton,  to  serve  two  years: 
mustered  in.  Co.  F,  June  15  1861;  trans 
ferred,  October  12,  1861,  to  United  States 
Cavalry. 


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HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-FOURTH  REGIMENT 


CAREY,    DAVID.— Age,    20    years.      Enlisted, 
June  16,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered   in  as   corporal,    Co.    A,   same   date; 
,.»kj!l^'    September   17,   1862,   at  Antietam,  Md. 
CARh\,     JOHN.— Age,     18    years.        Enlisted, 
-May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861;   wounded, 
September    17,   1862,   at   Antietam,    Md. ;   mus 
tered  out,  June  30,   1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 
CAREY,  THOMAS.- Age,  25  years.      Enlisted, 
May    1 8,    1861,    at   West    Troy,    to   serve   two 
years;    mustered    in,    Co.    A,   June    15,    1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,   1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 
Since    died. 

CAREY,  WILLIAM  (IST).— Age,  28  years. 
Enlisted,  May  14,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861  • 
discharged,  May  15,  1862,  at  New  York  city, 
as  \\  illiam  Ceary. 

CAREY,  WILLIAM  (2D)._,\ge,  18  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15, 
1861;  transferred,  October  13,  1861,  to  Fifth 
United  States  Cavalry. 

CARLIX,  JOH: X.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted, 
July  28,  1 86 1,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  A,  Au 
gust  4,  1861;  sergeant,  December  i,  1862; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 
Since  died. 

CARLTOX,  HEXRY.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  Tune  15,  1861; 
killed,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va 
CARLTOX,  STEPHEN'.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1 86 1,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I),  June  15, 
1861;  discharged,  September  15,  1862,  for 
wounds  received,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks, 
Va. 

CARR,  JAMES. -Age,  42  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15,  1861; 
died,  Xovember  12,  1862,  at  Harper's  Ferry, 

CARR,  JAMES  R.— Age,  34  years.  Enrolled, 
May  18,  1861,  at  Tuscarora,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  first  lieutenant,  Co.  R, 
June  15,  1861;  died,  October  4,  1861,  at 
Seneca  Mills,  Md. 

CARR,  THOMAS.— Age,  43  years.  Enlisted, 
December  9,  1861,  at  Ilerkimer,  to  serve  un- 
expired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 
F,same  date;  discharged  for  disability,  March 
20,  1863,  at  Falmouth,  Va.  Since  died 

CARROLL,  EDWARD.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Richfield  Springs,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  Tune 
15.  1861;  discharged,  Xovember  15,  1862,  at 
Alexandria,  Va.,  for  wounds  received  at 
White  Oak  Swamp,  Ya. 

CARTER,  WALTER.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1 86 1,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861  ; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  'Albany, 

CARTER.  WEBSTER.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1 86 1,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15, 
1861;  wounded.  September  17,  1862,  at  An 
tietam,  Md.;  discharged  for  disability,  De 
cember  31,  1862,  at  Philadelphia,  Pa.;  since 
died. 

CAK.LO,  JEROME  M.— Age,  26  years.  En 
listed,  October  2,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  D,  October  16,  1861  ;  wounded,  S^p- 
ttmber  17.  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. ;  dis 
charged  for  disability,  February  19,  1863,  at 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 


CASEY,  JEREMIAH.— Age,  is  years.  En- 
li-ned,  May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  Tune  15,  1861  ; 
corporal,  I-ebruary  21,  1863;  mustered  out 
June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

CASLER,  JACOB.- Age,  28  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  Tune  15.  1861- 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863.  at  Albany, 
A.  \.;  subsequent  sedvice  in  Co.  F,  Second 
Mounted  Rifles. 

CASLER,  \\-ILLfAM.-Age,  33  years.  En 
listed,  October  18,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in.  Co.  K,  same  date;  transferred  to  Co.  B, 
Xovember  i,  1861  ;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

CASSIDY,  DAXIEL.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve 
two  .years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  15 
1861;  killed,  June  30,  1862,  at  White  Oak 
Swamp,  Ya. 

CASTLE,  HEXRY.-Age,  20  years.  Enlisted, 
June  29.  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  C,  same  date;  deserted,  Mav 
31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. 

CASWELL,  EGBERT  H.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  March  21,  1863. 
Since  died. 

CHAMBERLIX,  ORLAXDO  R.— Age,  18 
years.  Enlisted,  May  18,  1861,  at  Addison, 
to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  Tune 
15,  1861;  discharged,  April  20,  1863,"  for 
wounds  received,  September  17,  1862,  at  An 
tietam,  Md. ;  subsequent  service  in  Co.  K, 
Fourteenth  Artillery. 

CHAMBERLIX,  IIEXRY  B.— Age,  24  years. 
Enrolled,  May  i,  1861,  at  Fairfield,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  first  lieutenant, 
Co.  K.  June  15,  1861  ;  resigned,  Xovember 
22,  1861. 

CHAPIX,  LOUIS  X.— Age.  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
as  second  lieutenant,  December  3,  1862;  mus 
tered  out,  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

CHAPPELL,  JAMES.— Age,  31  years.  En 
listed,  May  T,  1 86 1,  at  Poland,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out.  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albaiiv,  X.  Y. 

CLARK,    HARRISOX.— Age,    21    years.       En 
listed,    May    22,    1 86 1,    at    Hammondsport,    to  ' 
serve    two    years;    mustered    in,    Co.    I,    June 
15,    1861;    mustered    out,    Tune    30,    1863,    at 
Albany,    X.    Y. 

CLARKE  TRVIXG  D.— Age,  22  years.  En 
rolled,  May  i,  1 86 1.  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  second  lieutenant, 
Co.  B,  June  15,  1861  ;  as  first  lieutenant.  Co. 
C,  June  24,  1862;  as  captain,  Co.  B,  January 
22.  1863;  injured  by  falling  horse  at  Seneca 
Mills,  1 86 1,  and  wounded  at  Fair  Oaks,  Ya., 
May  31,  1862;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

CLARK,  LEWIS  M.— Age.  30  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  first  sergeant,  Co.  B, 
June  15.  1861;  reduced  to  sergeant.  June  29, 
1861;  discharged,  September  16,  1861. 

CLARK,  ROBERT.— Age,  17  years.  Enlisted, 
September  7,  1861.  a.t  Seneca  Falls,  to  serve 
unexnired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  B,  same  date;  discharged  for  disability, 
Xovember  21.  1861,  at  Poolsville,  Md. 

CLARK,  SAMUEL  S.  — Age,  27  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 


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12 


corporal,  November  i,  1861;  sergeant,  July 
24,  1862;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  X.  V. 


CLARK;  SOLOMON  B.—  Age,   26  years.      En 
,    at    Hammondsport,   to 
serve    two   years;     mustered    in,    Co.    I,   June 


listed,    May    22,    1861, 


5,    1861;    died.  June  i,  1862,  of  wounds  re 
ceived  at  Fair  Oaks,  Ya. 

COAKES,     JOHN.—  Age,   23    years.     Enlisted,  , 
October,   21,    1861,   at    Fairport,   to   serve  un- 
expired  term  of  two  years;    mustered  in,  Co. 

C,  October   31,  1861;   mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  N.   Y. 

COATES,  GEORGE  B.—  Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Ticonderoga,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861; 
corporal,  date  not  stated;  sergeant,  May  30, 
1862;  commissary  sergeant,  May  31,  1862; 
mustered  in  as  second  lieutenant,  Co.  I,  De 
cember  13,  1862;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y.  Since  died. 

COLE,  GEORGE.—  Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
October  19,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve  un- 
expired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 
K,  same  date;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albany,  N.  Y.,  as  George  E.  Cool. 

COLE,  HENRY.—  Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
October  19,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve  un- 
expired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 
K,  same  date;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albanv,  N.  Y.,  as  George  Cool. 

COLGROYE.  WILLIAM  R.—  Age,  20  years. 
Enlisted,  May  18,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861; 
wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 
Md.  ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y.  ;  since  died. 

COLONEY,  CHARLES.—  Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Brockett's  Bridge,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June 
15,  1861:  died,  August  27,  1862,  at  Phila 
delphia,  Pa. 

COMIX'S,  ALEXANDER  H.—  Age.  24  years. 
Enlisted,  September  2,  1862,  at  Manheim,  to 
serve  three  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  same 
date;  died,  J'anuary  25,  1863,  at  Washington, 

D.  C.,     of    wounds    received    December    13, 

1862,  at  Fredericksburg,   Ya. 
COMSTOCK,      ELTSHA      P.—  Age,    19   years. 

Enlisted,  October  21,  1861,  at  Albany,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  K,  same  date;  transferred  to  Co.  C, 
Xovember  4,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30, 

1863,  at  Albany,   X.   Y.  ;  also  borne  as  Elisba 

B.  Comstock. 

COMSTOCK,  HEXRY.—  Age,  42  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1  86  1,  at  Graysville,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861^; 
mustered  out.  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

COMSTOCK,  ORIX.—  Age,  27  years.  En 
listed,  October,  21,  1861,  at  Gray,  to  serve 
unexnired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  K,  same  date;  wounded,  September  17, 

1862,  at    Antietam,    Md.;   transferred   to    Co. 

C,  October  30,   1861;   mustered  out,  June   30, 

1863,  at  Albany.  N.  Y. 

COMSTOCK.  THOMAS.—  Age,  .77  years.  En 
listed,  October  7,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  A.  same  date:  mustered  out.  Tune  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y.  Since  died. 

CONCH,  GEORGE.—  Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1861,  at  Wheeler,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  I,  Tune  15.  1861  ;  deserted, 
August  20,  1  86  1,  at  Seneca  Mills,  Md. 

CONDOX,  THOMAS.—  Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Newport,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  November  22,  1862. 


CONLY,  PATRICK.— Age,  24  years.  Enlisted. 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Ticonderoga,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  i§,  1861; 
corporal,  date  not  stated;  sergeant,  February 
28,  1863;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
banv.  N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in  Co.  E, 
Eighteenth  Cavalry,  as  Patrick  Connelly. 

COXROY,  THOMAS.— Age,  35  years.  En 
listed,  June  i,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861  ; 
transferred  to  United  States  Cavalry,  Octo 
ber  10,  1861. 

COXWAY,  JOHX  D.— Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in.  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861: 
corporal,  date  not  stated;  mustered  out,  June 
?o,  1863,  at  Albany,  X*.  Y. 

COOK,  ALBERT  H.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted. 
May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861; 
corporal,  date  not  stated;  detached  on  signal 
service  for  a  time;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
186^,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

COOK,  AMBROSE  J. — Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  10,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
sergeant,  date  not  stated;  mustered  out,  June 
30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

COOK,  JUDSOX  E.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted. 
May  i,  1861,  at  Moriah,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861  ;  sergeant. 
February  28,  1863;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

COOL,  STEPHEX.— Age,  t8  years.  Enlisted. 
Xovember  19,  1861,  at  Stratford,  to  serve 
unexmred  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  B,  same  date;  killed,  September  17,  1862. 
at  Antietam,  Md. ;  also  borne  as  Stephen  A. 
Cool. 

COOX,  DAXIEL  H.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted. 
May  1 8,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve  two  years: 
mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861;  corporal. 
Tanuary  i,  1863;  mustered  out,  June  30. 
"1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

COOX,  JAMES.  -Age,  23  years.  Enlisted. 
May  1 8,  1861,  at  Tuscarora.  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15.  1861; 
died,  October  17,  1862,  at  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
of  wounds  received  at  Antietam.  Md. 

COOXAX.  PATRICK.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  October  15,  1861,  at  Champlain.  to 
serve  unexnired  term  of  two  years;  mus 
tered  in.  Co.  D,  October  16,  i8M:  killed. 
September  17,  1862.  at  Antietam,  Md. 

COOXAX.  THOMAS.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1 86 1.  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861  : 
discharged  for  disability,  Xovember  12,  1861. 
at  Washington.  D.  C. 

COOXRAD.  JOHX.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted. 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Postville,  to  serve  two  years: 
mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15.  1861^;  died,  Au 
gust  2.  1862.  in  hospital  at  X'ew  \ork  city,  as 
John  Conradt. 

COOPER.  HEXRY  T.--Age.  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861.  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  sergeant.  Co.  D. 
June"i5,  1861:  discharged  for  disability.  May 
24,  1862,  at  Yorktown.  Ya. 

COOPER,  TASOX.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
October  14,  1861.  at  Champlain,  to  serve  un 
expired  term  of  two  years:  mustered  in,  Co. 
D.October  16,  1861;  corporal,  date  not  st-ited: 
mustered  out.  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany.  X.  \  .. 
as  Jason  W.  Cooper. 

CORBTX,  DAXIEL  SPEXCER.— Aee  37 
years.  Enlisted,  May  i.  1861.  at  Little  Falls, 
to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B.  June 


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HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-FOURTH  REGIMENT 


15,  1861  ;  discharged  for  disability,  October 
i,  1861,  at  Washington,  D.  C.,  as  Daniel  S. 
Corbyn. 

CORBYN,  JR.,  DANIEL  S.— Age,  22  years. 
Enlisted,  July  3,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  B,  same  date;  killed,  May  31,  1862,  at 
Fair  Oaks,  Va. 

CORCORAN,  MARTIN.— Age,  27  years.  En 
listed,  November  20,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  C,  November  20,  1861;  first  sergeant, 
January  28,  1863;  second  lieutenant,  May  7, 
1863;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y. 

CORCORAN,  PATRICK.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  December,  31,  1861,  at  Albany,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  C,  January  i,  1862;  corporal,  July  30, 
1862;  sergeant,  September  17,  1862;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. ; 
subsequent  service  in  Co.  G,  Second  New 
York  Cavalry. 

CORCORAN,  THOMAS.— Age,  23  years.  En 
rolled,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Graysville,  to  servo 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  captain,  Co.  C, 
June  15,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albany,  N.  Y.  Since  died.  See  biog 
raphy. 

CORNELIUS,  GEORGE  B.— Age,  25  years. 
Enlisted,  June  15,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  same  date; 
mustered  out.  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

CORP,  WILLIAM  H.— Age,  27  years.  En 
listed,  May  7,  1861,  at  Norway,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  musician,  Co.  C,  June 
15,  1861;  died  of  disease,  November  18, 

1862,  in     United     States    General     Hospital, 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 

CORRIGAN,  TERRANCE.— Age,  26  years. 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June 
15,  1861;  transferred,  October  10,  1861,  to 
United  States  Cavalry. 

CORY,  JAMES  H.— Age,  30  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in  as  sergeant,  Co.  G,  June  15, 
1861;  reduced,  August  13,  1861;  corporal, 
December  2,  1861;  sergeant,  September  17, 
1862;  first  sergeant,  January  22,  1863;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. ; 
subsequent  service  in  Co.  C,  Eighteenth  New 
York  Cavalry. 

CRANDALL,  LOVELL  D.— Age,  36  years. 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June 
15,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1861,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. 

CRANE,  GEORGE.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted, 
May  18,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861;  sergeant, 
October  31,  1862;  mustered  out,  June  30, 

1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in 
Co.    G,   Second   New   York   Cavalry. 

CREGO,  ALBERT. — Age,  25  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861  ;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

CREWELL,  JOHN  H.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Dennisons,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861 ; 
died  of  disease,  August  22,  1862,  at  Phila 
delphia,  Pa. 

CREWELL,  PHILIP.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Columbia,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861  ; 
corporal,  date  not  stated;  mustered  out, 
June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 


CRIST,  JAMES  B.— Age,  24  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  sergeant,  Co.  F,  June 
15,  1861;  wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at 
Antietam,  Md. ;  promoted  first  sergeant,  date 
not  stated;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. ;  commissioned  second  lieu 
tenant,  June  19,  1863;  not  mustered.  Since 
died. 

CROFOOT,  ORLANDO  M.— Age,  24  years. 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport, 
to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I, 
June  15,  1861;  wounded  from  accidental 
discharge  of  his  gun  while  on  picket,  June  22, 
1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. ;  discharged,  August 
15,  1862,  at  New  York;  commissioned 
second  lieutenant,  with  rank  from  May  18^ 

1 86 1,  original:    not    mustered. 

CROSS,  WILLIAM  T.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  August  i,  1 86 1,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mus 
tered  in,  Co.  I,  same  date;  mustered  out, 
June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

CROSSMAN,  FOSTER  B.— Age,  21  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June 
15,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863;  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. 

CROUCH,  CHARLES  S.— Age,  34  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861 ; 
corporal  and  sergeant,  dates  not  stated;  dis 
charged  December  18,  1862,  at  Washing- 

CROUCH,  DAVID.— Age,  23  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Columbia,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861;  corporal, 
date  not  stated;  killed,  September  17,  1862, 
at  Antietam,  Md. 

CROWL,  GEORGE  W.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  June  20,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  E,  June  23,  1861;  deserted,  July  10, 

1862,  at  Harrison's  Landing,  Va. 
CUMMINGS,  RICHARDSON,— Age,  22  years. 

Enlisted,  June  20,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  E,  June  23,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30, 

1863,  at  Albany,   N.    Y. 

CUMMINS,  JAMES.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  South  Pulteney,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15, 
1861;  died  of  disease,  August  20,  1861,  at 
Seneca  Mills,  Md. 

CUNNINGHAM,  JOHN.— Age  39  years.  En 
listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  15, 
1861;  discharged  for  disability,  May  22, 
1862,  at  Georgetown,  Md.  Since  died. 

CURRIER,  OLIVER  C.— Age,  23  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June 
15,  1861;  sergeant  and  reduced,  dates  not 
stated;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. 

CURTIS,  LEWIS  A.— Age,  25  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Mohawk,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15, 
1861;  quartermaster-sergeant,  May  30,  1862; 
reduced  to  the  ranks,  October  i,  1862;  pro 
moted  commissary-sergeant,  December  13, 
1862;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y.  Since  died. 

CUYLER,  JOHN.— Age,  44  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  July  i,  1861,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y.,  as  John  Cuilar. 


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DAILY,  JAMES.— Age,  20  years.  Enlisted, 
October  19,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  K,  same  date;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

DAILY,  JOHN.— Age,  32  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  a£  Albany, 
N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in  Thirteenth 
Artillery. 

DALEY,  JOHN.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
May  1 8,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y.  Since  died. 

DANIELS,  WILLIAM  H.— Age,  19  years. 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport, 
to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June 
15,  1861;  sergeant,  March  16,  1863;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 
Since  died. 

DARLING,  LUTHER.— Age,  37  years.  En 
listed,  May  15,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. ;  also  borne  as  Luther  Darland. 

DARLING,  OLIVER  PERRY.— Age,  30  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15, 
1861;  kille'd,  September  16,  1861,  at  Seneca 
Mills,  Md. 

DART,  HENRY.— Age,  23  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1861,  at  South  Poulteney,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15,  1861 ; 
transferred,  October  13,  1861,  to  United 
States  Cavalry,  at  Seneca  Mills,  Md.  Since 
died  at  Pulteney,  N.  Y. 

DAVIS,  GEORGE.— Age,  25  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 

DAVIS,  JEREMIAH  M.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  "May  10,  1861,  at  HerkimeV,  to  serve 
two  years;  mxistered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15, 
1861;'  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y. 

DAVIDSON,  EDWARD.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15,  1861; 
wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 
Md. ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 

DAWSON,  RICHARD.— Age,  35  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15, 
1861;  corporal  and  sergeant,  dates  not  stated; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y. ;  wounded,  December  13,  1862,  at 
Fredericksburg,  Va. ;  since  died. 

DEAL,  CHARLES.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
September  30,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  un 
expired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 
D,  October  16,  1861 ;  corporal,  date  not  stated; 
sergeant,  April  20,  1863;  mustered  out,  June 
30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. ;  now  United 
States  Consul  at  St.  Johns,  P.  O. 

DE  FOREST,  WILLIAM  H.— Age,  21  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861  ; 
corporal,  November  i,  1861;  wounded,  Decem 
ber  13,  1862,  at  Fredericksburg,  Va. ;  mus 
tered  out,  Tune  30,  1863.  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

DEGNAN,  MICHAEL.— Age,  30  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15, 
1861;  wounded.  June  30,  1862,  at  White  Oak 
Swamp,  Va. ;  discharged,  December  12.  1862, 
by  reason  of  such  wounds,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 


DELAND,  LYMAN.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  May  1 8,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  musician,  Co.  E, 
June  i£,  1861;  reduced,  date  not  stated;  dis 
charged,  September  27,  1862,  for  wounds  re 
ceived  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. 

DELANEY,  FRANKLIN  B.— Age,  18  years. 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15, 
1861;  wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  An 
tietam,  Md. ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. 

DUMOULIN,  PHILIP.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  October  12,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  D,  October  16,  1861;  corporal,  date 
not  stated;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. 

DES  CHAMPS,  ELI  J.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  D, 
Tune  15,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
"at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

DEVENESE,  JOHN  B.— Age,  44  years.  En 
listed,  May  10,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  March  27,  1862,  at 
Alexandria,  Va. 

DIXON,  JOHN.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15, 
1861;  killed,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antie 
tam,  Md. ;  also  borne  as  John  Dickson. 

DILLON,  JAMES.— Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861; 
killed,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. 

DIXON,  ROBERT.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
June  16,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  B,  same  date;  corporal,  De 
cember  3,  1862;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

DOCKSTADER.  EZRA.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  musician,  Co.  G, 
Tune  15,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albanv,  N.  Y. 

DODDS,  GEORGE.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
October  14,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  un 
expired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 
D,  October  16,  1861:  transferred,  November 
23,  1862,  to  United  States  Cavalry. 

DODGE,  DANIEL  O.— Age,  35  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 
Since  died. 

DOLING,  JOHN.— Age,  24  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15.  1861; 
mustered  out,  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y.,  as  John  Dorling.  Since  died. 

DONNELLY,  JAMES.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  September  15,  1861,  at  Seneca  Mills, 
Md.,  to  serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  I,  same  date;  mustered  out. 
Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. ;  subsequent 
service  in  Co.  G,  Twenty-second  Cavalry. 
Since  died  at  Kanona,  N.  Y. 

DONOHOE,  EDWARD.— Age,  23  years.  En 
listed,  June  1 6,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  same  date:  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany.  N.  Y. : 
subsequent  service  in  Co.  I,  Seventh  Artil 
lery,  as  Edward  Dunham.  Since  died. 

DONOHOE,  JAMES.— Age,  28  years.  En 
listed,  June  1 6.  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  same  date;  killed, 
September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. 


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HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-FOURTH  REGIMENT 


DOXOHOE,  JOHN. — Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
July  28,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  August  4,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

DOXOHUE,  PATRICK.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15,  1861; 
corporal,  September  17,  1862;  mustered  out, 
June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. ;  subsequent 
service  in  Co.  G,  Second  Artillery. 

DOOLITTLE,  LELAXD  L.— Age,  34  years. 
Enrolled,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in  as  captain,  Co. 
H,  June  15,  1861;  resigned,  October  18,  1861. 

DORX,  CHARLES.— Age,  28  years.  Enlisted, 
June  1 6,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  A,  same  date;  transferred, 
February  17,  1862,  to  Xavy  Department; 
subsequent  service  in  Co.  C,  Eighteenth  Cav 
alry,  as  Charles  Van  Dorn. 

DOTY,  ALBERT.— Age,  20  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861  ;  first  ser 
geant,  December  2,  1861;  mustered  in  as  first 
lieutenant,  March  20,  1862;  adjutant,  Jan 
uary  28,  1863;  discharged  for  disability,  May 
7,  1863. 

DOUD,  JOHN.— Age,  26  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861; 
wounded,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. ; 
mustered  out,  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

DOUGHERTY,  MICHAEL  O.— Age,  29  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15, 
1861;  corporal,  March  20,  1862;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

DOXTATER,  HARRY  H.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years:  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861, 
discharged,  date  and  place  not  stated. 

DOXTATER,  JACOB  F.— Age,  26  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Fairfield,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861; 
transferred,  October  13,  1861,  to  the  Cav- 

DUIVLEY,  JOHX.— Age,  24  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15, 
1861;  captured  at  Savage  Station,  Va.,  date 
not  stated;  returned  to  regiment,  August  i, 
1862;  absent,  sick,  since  August  15,  1862, 
and  at  muster-out  of  company.  Since  died. 

DUGAX,  JAMES.— Age,  20  years.  Enlisted. 
May,  18,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A.  June  15,  1861  ; 
wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 
Md. :  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 

DUXX,  MELVILLE  S.— Age,  24  years.  En 
listed,  May  1 8,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  E, 
June  15,  1861;  sergeant,  date  not  stated; 
mustered  in  as  second  lieutenant,  October  31. 
1862;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany. 
X.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  as  first  lieutenant 
in  Second  Xew  York  Veteran  Cavalry;  killed, 
in  cavalrv  charge  on  a  bridge  near  Campti, 
La.,  in  May,  1864. 

DURAXD.  WILLIAM.— Age,  27  years.  En 
listed,  May  1 8,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  sergeant,  Co.  E, 
Tune  15,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

DU  RELA,  HEXRY.— Age,  38  years.  Enlisted, 
June  15,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  F,  same  date;  died  of  dis 
ease,  Xovember  16,  1862,  at  Harper's  Ferry, 
Va. 


DURRIX,  GEORGE.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted, 
August  i,  1 86 1,  at  Brockets  Bridge,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  K,  same  date;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y.;  subsequent  service 
in  Co.  B,  Sixteenth  Artillery. 

DYE,  DAVID  W.—  Age,  27  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861;  died  of 
disease,  July  21,  1862,  near  Fort  Monroe, 
Va. 

DYE,  MARK  H.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

EARL,  JAMES.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted,  May 
22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  two  years: 
mustered  in,  Co.  I),  June  15,  1861;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. ;  since 
died. 

EARLY,  PATRICK.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Jordansville,  to  serve  two 
.years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

EASTERBROOK,  ALBERT  G.— Age,  19  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Oneida,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861; 
killed,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. 

EASTERBROOK,  JR.,  XATHAX.— Age,  25 
years.  Enrolled,  May  30,  1861,  at  Little 
Falls,  to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in  as 
quartermaster,  June  15,  1861;  mustered  out 
with  regiment,  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany. 
X.  Y. 

EASTMAN,  GILBERT  L.— Age,  18  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Stockbridge,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June 
is,,  1861;  wounded,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair 
Oaks,  Va. ;  discharged  by  reason  of  such 
wounds,  Xovember  22,  1862. 

ECKERSOX.  HEXRY  M.— Age,  22  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

EDSALL,  SAMUEL  A.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15, 


1861*  discharged,  December  i,  1861,  at  Pools- 
ville,  Md. 

EDWARDS,  STEPHEX.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861  : 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863;  subsequent 
service  in  Co.  C,  Sixteenth  Xew  York  Artil 
lery;  since  died. 

EGAX,  CHARLES.— Age,  27  years.  Enlisted. 
Xovember  10,  1861,  at  Camp  McClellan,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G.  same 
date;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y. 

EGELER,  TOHX.— Age.  24  years.  Enlisted. 
October  20,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  October  29,  1861: 
wounded,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  \  a. ; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany. 
X.  Y. 

EGLESTOX,  WILLIAM.— Age,  24  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  South  Poulteney,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15. 
1861;  discharged,  July  25,  1862,  at  Xew  York 
city,  for  wounds  received  at  Fair  Oaks,  \  a. 

ELDRIDGE,  CYRUS.— Age,  24  years.  En 
listed.  May  i,  1861,  at  Graysville,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863.  at  Albany,  X.  \. 

ELDRIDGE,  WILLIAM  E.— Age,  28  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861.  at  Williamstown,  to 


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serve   two   years;    mustered    in,    Co.    G,   June 

15,  1861;    killed,    September    17,    1862,  at  An 
tic-tain,   Md. 

ELLIS,  JAMES.-  Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
absent,  sick,  in  General  Hospital,  at  Newark, 
X.  J.,  at  muster-out  of  company. 

EMBODY,  DANIEL  A.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Norway,  to  serve  t,\a 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861; 
corporal,  November  24,  1862;  mustered  out, 
June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  V. 

EMMETT,  ORRIX  M.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in  as  sergeant, 
Co.  I,  June  15,  1861  ;  sergeant-major,  March 

1 6,  1863;    mustered   out,    June    30,    1863,    at 
Albany,   N.   Y. ;   subsequent  service  in  Co.  G, 
Twenty-second   Cavalry. 

ERWIX.  EDWARD.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted, 
May  1 8,  1861,  at  Erwin,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861;  dis 
charged  for  disability,  August  30,  1861;  since 
died. 

EVANS,  RICHARD.— Age,  23  years.  Enlisted, 
June  15,  1861.  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  I,  same  date;  deserted,  Au 
gust  20,  1861,  at  Seneca  Mills,  Md. ;  supposed 
to  be  identical  with  Norman  Evans. 

FAGAN,  MICHAEL.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861;  corporal 
and  returned  to  ranks,  no  dates;  discharged 
for  disability,  July  3,  1862. 

FAIRBANKS",  JOSEPH.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  June  15,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  "mustered  in,  Co.  I,  same  date;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

FAIRFIELD,  WALTER  S.— Age,  34  years. 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861.  at  South  Foulteney, 
to  serve  two  years:  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June 
15,  1861;  died  of  disease,  February  20,  1863, 
at  Stanton  Hospital,  Washington,  D.  C. 

FAVILLE.  JAMES.— Age,  39  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. ;  since 
died.  See  biography. 

FAY,  JAMES.— Age,"  18  years.     Enlisted,  May 

22,  1861,    at    Hammondsport,    to    serve    two 
years;    mustered    in,    Co.    I,    June    15,    1861 ; 
corporal,    December    13,    1862;   mustered   out. 
Tune   30.   1863.   at   Albany,   N.   Y. 

FAY,  PAUL.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted,  May 
i.  1 86 1,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863.  at  Albany,  N.  Y. ;  subse- 
nuent  service  in  Co.  E,  Sixteenth  Artillerv. 

FENN,  GEORGE  H.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861; 
corporal  and  returned  to  ranks,  no  dates; 
wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 
Md. ;  mustered  out.  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany.  N.  Y. 

FENTON,  EZRA.— Age,  20  years.  Enlisted, 
June  20,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve  two  years; 
term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June 

23,  1861:    deserted,    September    20,    1861,    at 
Senega   Mills.   MH. 

FKRRILL.  JEREMIAH.— Age,  28  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1.  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  G, 
June  15.  1861:  reduced,  July  18,  1862:  de 
serted.  December  13,  1862,  at  Fredericks- 
burg,  Va. 

FFRRTLL.  THOMAS.— Age.  10  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1.  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years:  mustered  in,  Co.  B.  June  15,  1861  ; 


wounded,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. ; 
mustered  out.  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

FERRIS,  EDMUND  \V.— Age,  34  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1 86 1,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861; 
sergeant,  and  returned  to  ranks,  no  dates; 
detached  to  gunboat  service,  February  17, 
1862;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y. 

FETTERLY,  AUBERLY.— Age,  19  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Fairfield,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861; 
transferred,  October  13,  1861,  to  Cavalry. 

FINCH,  HIRAM  L.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted, 
June  20,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve  unex- 
pired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E, 
June  23,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albany,  N.  Y'. 

FINEGAN,  PATRICK  H.— Age,  21  years. 
Enlisted,  June  16,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  same  date; 
corporal,  January  6,  1863;  mustered  out, 
June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

FINNEGAN,  DAVID.— Age,  26  years.  En 
listed,  June  15,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  same  date;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 
Since  died  at  Himrods,  N.  Y. 

FINNEGAN,  JOHN.— Age,  27  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1861,  at  South  Poulteney,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  sergeant,  Co.  1, 
same  date;  first  sergeant,  date  not  stated; 
discharged,  April  9,  1863,  at  Falmouth,  Va., 
for  wounds  received  December  13,  1862,  at 
Fredericksburg,  Ya.  Since  died  at  Bluff 
Point,  N.  Y. 

FISHER,  JOHN.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
May  10,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out.  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

FITCH,  JOHN  H.— Age,  25  years.  En 
listed,  May  30,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  quartermaster-sergeant, 
June  15,  1861;  discharged,  July  15,  1861: 
also  borne  as  Fitchet. 

FITZPATRICK,  CORNELIUS.— Age,  25  years. 


Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15, 
1861;  detached  to  Artillery,  date  not  stat 
mustered  out  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N. 
FLANSBURGH,  PHILIP.— Age,  25  ye; 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls, 


1861;  detached  to  Artillery,  date  not  stated^ 
mustered  out  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

FLANSBURGH,  PHILIP.— Age,  25_  years. 

to 

serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June 
i>,  1861;  corporal,  January  i,  1862;  reduced, 
May  13,  1862;  sergeant,  June  24,  1862;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. ; 
subsequent  service  in  Co.  G,  Second  Artil 
lery.  Since  died. 

FLANIGAN,  DAVID.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  June  1 6,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
vears;  "mustered  in,  Co.  A,  same  date;  mus 
tered  out,  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

FLINN,  CHARLES  J.— Age  19  years.  En 
listed  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861: 
mustered  out,  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany. 

FLINT,  WALLACE.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1 86 1,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D.  June  15.  1861  ; 
deserted,  February  18,  1862,  at  Poolsville. 
Md. 

FLUENT,  JOHN.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted, 
May  1 8,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve  two  years: 
mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1 86 1  ^mustered 
out.  Tune  30.  1863.  at  Albany.  N.  Y. 

FLYNN,  ANGEYINE. — Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  August  i,  1 86 1,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years:  mustered 
in,  Co.  I,  same  date;  Clustered  out.  June  30. 
1863.  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 


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HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-FOURTH  REGIMENT 


FOLTS,  ADAM.— Age,  43  years.  Enlisted, 
December  18,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  un- 
expired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 
K,  same  date;  transferred  to  Co.  F,  January 
6,  1862;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in  Sixteenth 
Artillery,  in  which  he  died. 

FOLTS,  ADAM  J.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
October  20,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  un- 
expired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 
F,  October  29,  1861  ;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. ;  subsequent  service 
in  Sixteenth  Artillery. 

FOLTS,  WILLIAM  H.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

FORT,  JESSE  R.— Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Richfield  Springs,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15,  1861  ; 
wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 
Md. ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in  Co.  F, 
Sixteenth  Artillery. 

FORTIN,  BEXJAMIN.— Age,  18  years'.  En 
listed,  June  u,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  on  writ  of  habeas  corpus,  no  date. 

FOSKET,  ORLAXDO.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Columbia,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
died.  December  31,  1862,  at  Washington, 
D.  C,  of  wounds  received  December  13, 
1862,  at  Fredericksburg,  Va. 

FOX,  JOHN.— Age,  24  years.  Enlisted,  May 
1 8,  at  Addison,  to  serve  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861;  mustered  out,  Tune 
30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

FRALICK.  JOHX  H.— Age,  26  years.  En 
rolled,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  first  lieutenant,  Co. 
B,  to  date,  May  i,  1861  ;  resigned,  December 
3,  1862. 

FRANCE,  S.  SPENCER.— Age,  30  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Poland,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  Tune  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  October  14,  1862,  at 
Washington,  D.  C. 

FRANKLIN,  HENRY.— Age,  35  years.  En 
listed,  June  20,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  E,  Tune  23,  1861;  wounded  at  Fair  Oaks. 
Va. ;  discharged  for  disability,  March  20, 
1863:  since  die^V 

FRAZTER,  PETER  N.— Age,  21  years.  En- 
listed,  June  25.  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  same  date;  trans 
ferred  to  Co.  F,  September  i,  1861;  ser 
geant,  same  date;  wounded,  September  17, 
1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. ;  mustered  out,  June 
30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

FRETDENTHALL,  HENRY.— Age,  26  years. 
Enlisted,  June  15,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  same  date; 
wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 
Md. ;  discharged,  June  i,  1863,  at  Albany, 
X.  Y.  Since  died  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

FREXCH,  THEODORE.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1.  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years:  mustered  in.  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861 ; 
discharged  for.  disability,  October  12,  1862, 
at  Washington,  D.  C.  Since  died. 

FULLER,  ERWIN  G.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  June  1 8,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  same  date;  cor 
poral,  January  i,  1862;  died  of  disease,  No 
vember  22,  1862;  Fuller  is  buried  in  the  Na 
tional  Cemetery,  at  Fredericksburg,  Va. ;  No. 
of  his  grave  is  2,798;  name  on  grave  is  Edwin. 


FUSCHEA,  JOHX.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
June  n,  1 86 1,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861 ; 
discharged,  on  writ  of  habeas  corpus,  date  not 
stated. 

FYE,  GEORGE.— Age,  43  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15,  1861  ;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

FYNN,  MARTIN.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861;  wounded, 
May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. ;  discharged 
for  disability,  February  25,  1863. 

FYXX,  PATRICK  J.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  October  18,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  K,  same  date;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service 
in  Co.  B,  Sixteenth  Artillery. 

GADBAN,  LEWIS.— Age,  28  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1861,  at  Massena  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861 ;  killed, 
September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. 

GADBAN,  PETER  W.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15, 
1861;  transferred  to  United  States  Cavalry, 
November  23,  1862. 

GAGE,  ABRAM.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Mohawk,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

GAGE,  DAVID.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861 ;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

GALLOP,  GEORGE  H.— Age,  41  years.  En 
listed,  November  19,  1861,  at  Lake  Pleasant, 
to  serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mus 
tered  in,  Co.  B,  same  date;  died,  December 
i,  1862,  at  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

GAVIN,  THOMAS  C.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15, 
1861;  deserted,  June  20,  1861,  at  Poolsville, 
Md.,  as  Thomas  C.  Garvin. 

GENTER,  MATTHEW.— Age,  36  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  Xovember  21,  1862, 
at  Washington,  D.  C. 

GETMAN,  GEORGE.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  August  i,  1861,  at  Brockett's  Bridge, 
to  serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mus 
tered  in,  Co.  K,  same  date;  mustered  out, 
June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

GIBBS,  ALBERT  V.— Age.  21  years.  En 
listed,  June  20,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  E,  June  23,  1861:  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

GIBSON,  JUDSON  H.— Age,  23  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June 
15,1861;  corporal,  April  7,  1862;  muttered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

GILLES,  EDGAR.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861; 
absent,  sick,  at  muster-out  of  company,  as 
Edgar  H.  Giles.  Since  died. 

GILLIGAN,  THOMAS.— Age,  30  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1.  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  Tune  15,  1861; 
transferred  to  Fifth  United  States  Cavalry, 
October  6,  1861. 


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GILLMAN,  HENRY.—  Age,  27  years.  Enlisted, 
June  16,  1  86  1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  A,  same  date;  killed,  Sep 
tember  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. 

GLEASON,  JOHN.—  Age,  25  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861; 
wounded  at  White  Oak  Swamp,  Va.,  June 
30,  1862;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  X.  Y. 

GLACKlX,  \VILLIAM.-Age,  25  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15, 
1861;  discharged  for  disability,  March  13, 
1863,  at  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

GOFF,  WILLIAM  H.—  Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y.  ;  subsequent  service  in  Co.  G, 
Twenty-second  New  York  Cavalry. 

GOODBODY,  JASPER.—  Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15, 
1861;  deserted,  September  21,  1861,  at  Seneca 
Mills,  Md. 

GOODBREAD,  JEROME.—  Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1  86  1,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15, 
1861;  wounded,  December  14,  1862,  at  Fred- 
ericksburg,  Va.;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y.  ;  subsequent  service  in 
Co.  D,  Sixteenth  New  York  Artillery. 

GOODRICH,  CHARLES  H.—  Age,  23  years. 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  South  Poulteney, 
to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June 
15,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y.  Since  died  in  the  west. 

GOOKEY,  JOSEPH.—  Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861  ; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

GORDON,  DANIEL  R.—  Age,  23  years.  En 
listed,  May  1  8,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 


two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861; 

corporal,    date    not    stated;    killed,    June    30, 

1862,  at  White  Oak  Swamp,  Va. 
GORDON,    EDWARD.—  Age,    18    years.      En 

listed,   May  22,   1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 

two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861; 

mustered    out,    June    30,     1863,    at    Albany, 

N.  Y.  ;  subsequent  service  in   Co.  H,   Second 

Cavalry. 
GORDON,   JAMES   W.—  Age,    25    years.      En 

listed,    March    3,    1862,    at    Lenox,    to    serve 

three  years;  mustered  in,   Co.   G,  same  date; 

died,  June  22,   1862,  of  wound  received,  May 

31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. 
GOREY,      WILLIAM.—  Age,    30   years.        En 

listed,  May  i,    1861,  at  Middleville,  to  serve 

two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F.  Tune  15,  1861; 

wounded.  May  31,    1862,  at  Fa'ir  Oaks,  Va.; 

discharged   for  disability,  March  24,   1863,  at 

Falmouth,  Va. 
GORMAN.    MARTIN.—  Age,    43    years.      En 

listed,  May  1  8,   1861.  at  West  Troy,  to  serve 

two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  15,  1861; 

wounded,    September   17,    1862'    at  Antietam. 

Md.  ;    sergeant,   December    i,    1862;   mustered 

out.  June  30,   1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y.     Since 

GORMAN.  RICHARD  L.—  Age,  26  years.  En 
listed,  April  27.  1861,  at  St.  Paul,  Minne 
sota.  to  serve  three  years;  mustered  in,  ns 
private.  First  Minnesota;  as  first  lieutenant, 
Co.  C.  this  regiment,  January  i,  1862;  as  cap 
tain.  Co.  A,  June  24,"  1862;"  resigned,  March 
2.  1863. 

GOUGH.  ELT.—  Age,  31  years.  Enlisted.  May 
14,  1861.  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years;  mus 


tered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861;  discharged, 
January  i,  1863,  at  Convalescent  Camp,  near 
Alexandria,  Va.,  for  wounds  received  Sep 
tember  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. 

GRACEY,  JR.,  ROBERT.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861; 
wounded  in  scouting  expedition  opposite 
Seneca  Mills,  September  16,  1861;  discharged 
in  consequence,  October  10,  1862,  at  Harper's 
Ferry,  Va.  Since  died. 

GRAHAM,  WILLIAM.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861; 
transferred  to  Fifth  United  States  Cavalry, 
October  13,  1861. 

GRAVES,  WILLlAM.-Age,  23  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 

GRAVES,  NATHAN.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861; 
corporal,  December  2,  1861 ;  reduced,  date 
not  stated;  corporal,  April  20,  1862;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y.  Since 
died. 

GRAY,  AARON.— Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1 86 1,  at  WTieeler,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15,  1861;  deserted, 
January  22,  1862,  at  Poolsville,  Md. 

GRAY,  JAMES  A.— Age,  31  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  musician,  Co.  I, 
June  15,  1861;  discharged,  July  20,  1861,  at 
Washington,  D.  C. 

GREEK,  EZRA.— Age,  28  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1861,  at  Canisteo,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15,  1861;  died,  Sep 
tember  24,  1862,  at  Hoffman's  Hospital,  of 
wounds  received  September  17,  1862,  at  An 
tietam,  Md. 

GREEN,  CHARLES.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
May  1 8,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861 ;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y.;  since 
died. 

GREEN,  CHARLES  J.— Age,  26  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861; 
wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 
Md. ;  discharged  for  disability,  January  29, 
1863,  at  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

GREEN,  DANIEL  M.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861; 
transferred,  February  8,  1862,  to  Gunboat 
Flotilla,  Department  of  the  West;  subsequent 
service  in  Co.  G,  Second  New  York  Veteran 
Cavalry. 

GREEN,  JACOB.— Age.  37  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B.  June  15,  1861; 
wounded.  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam. 
Md. ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 

GREENE,  JAMES  N.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Fairfield,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in.  Co.  K,  June  15. 
1861  f  mustered  out,  June  30.  1863,  at  Albany. 
N.  Y. 

GREEN.  JOHN.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted,  May 
22,  1 86 1,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861;  wounded, 
September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. ;  dis 
charged  for  disability,  March  10,  1863,  at 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 


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HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-FOURTH  REGIMENT 


GREENLY,  HIRAM  B.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged,  January  i,  1863,  for  wounds  re 
ceived,  June  30,  1862,  at  Glendale,  Ya. 

(GREGORY,  PH1LO.— Age,  28  years.  En 
listed,  June  21,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  same  date;  trans 
ferred  to  Co.  H,  April  i,  1862;  discharged 
for  disability,  June  4,  1862,  at  Philadelphia, 
Pa. 

-GRIFFIN,  JACOB  J.— Age,  39  years.  En- 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30.  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y. 

•GROSS,  ORSEMUS.-  Age,  26  years.  En 
listed,  June  20,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  E,  June  23,  1861;  transferred  to  cavalry, 
October  8,  1861. 

'GUILD,  WIXFIELD  SCOTT.— Age,  20  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to 
.serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June 
15,  1861;  corporal,  January  i,  1862;  reduced, 
May  13,  1862;  wounded,  May  31,  1862,  at 
Fair  Oaks,  Va. ;  discharged,  December  19, 

1862,  at  Washington,   D.   C. 

tGUILE,  CORNELIUS.— Age,  29  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
X.  Y. ;  wounded,  December  13,  1862,  at 
Fredericksburg,  Ya. ;  since  died. 

GUINXIP,  THOMAS  H.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y. ;  since  died. 

GUYER,  JACOB.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861;  wounded 
at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. ;  mustered  out,  June  30, 

1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

GUYON,  PETER.— Age,  38  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y.;  since  died. 

GUY,  JOHN  H.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Fairfield,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in  as  musician,  Co.  C,  June  15, 
1861;  discharged  for  disability,  June  29, 
1 86 1,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

HABBERSON,  CHARLES.— Age,  19  years. 
Enlisted,  October  19,  1861,  at  Little  Falls, 
to  serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mus 
tered  in,  Co.  K,  October  21,  1861;  corporal, 
March  i,  1863;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albany,  N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  as  first 
sergeant,  Co.  C,  Fourteenth  Artillery. 

HAGGERTY,  HARYEY  P.— Age,  26  years. 
Enlisted,  November  7,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  G,  same  date;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

HAIGHT,  LEWIS.— Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
June  19,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  G,  same  date;  discharged, 
August  1 8,  1862,  for  wounds  received  May 
31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. 

HAIGHT,  THOMAS  T.— Age,  40  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861 ; 
mustered  out,  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

HAILE,  CHARLES.— Age,  49  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  sergeant,  Co.  H,  June 
15,  1861;  discharged  for  disability,  November 
27,  1861,  at  Poolsville,  Md.  Since  died. 


HAMILTON,  JAMES.— Age,  39  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in  Co.  B,  Six 
teenth  Artillery. 

HAMMOND,  ALONZO.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Richfield  Springs,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June 
15,  1861  ;  mustered  out.  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. 

HAND,  WILLARD.— Age,  24  years.  Enlisted, 
June  20,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve  unex 
pired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E, 
June  23,  1861;  discharged  for  disability,  Sep 
tember  20,  1862. 

HANNA,  ALEXANDER.— Age,  30  years.  En 
listed,  June  1 6,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  same  date; 
wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 
Md. ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 

HARPER,  HUGH.— Age,  33  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  July  24,  1861,  at 
Washington,  D.  C. 

HARPER,  WILLIAM.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y. 

HARRINGTON,  JAMES  C— Age,  21  years. 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport, 
to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in  as  corporal, 
Co.  I,  June  15,  1861;  reduced,  date  not 
stated;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y.;  subsequent  service  in  Co.  G, 
Twentv-second  Cavalry. 

HARRIS,  EDWIN.— Age,  39  years.  Enlisted, 
October  21,  1861,  at  Fairfield,  to  serve  un 
expired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 
C,  same  date;  died  of  disease,  August  12, 

1862,  at  Harrison's  Landing,  Va. 
HARRIS,  WILLIAM  H.— Age,  20  years.    En 
listed,    June    15,    1861,    at    Albany,    to    serve 
two  years;    mustered    in,    Co.    I,    same   date; 
wounded,    September    17,    1862,    at   Antietam, 
Md.;     discharged     for     disability,     March     5, 

1863,  at  Stanton  Hospital,  Washington,  D.  C. 
HARSHULER,  FREDERICK.— Age,  38  years. 

Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  September  19,  1862, 
at  New  York  city. 

HART,  AMERICUS  V.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

HART,  JOHN.— Age,  33  years.     Enlisted,  May 

14,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years;  mus 
tered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861;  mustered  out, 
June  30,   1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

HARTER.  DANIEL  M.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  December  8,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mus 
tered  in,  Co.  B,  same  date;  discharged  for 
disability,  August  16,  1862,  at  Washington. 

HARTER.  TEREMIAH.— Age,  39  years.  En 
listed  Ma'y  i,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15, 
1 86 1  ;' mustered  put,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y.  Since  died. 

HARTHOUSE,  AUGUSTUS.— Age,  31  years 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June 

15,  1861;     wounded,    September    17,    1862,   at 
Antietam,  Md.:  mustered  out,  Tune  30,  1863. 
at  Albany,  N.  Y. 


ROSTER   OF   THE   R  EG  I  ME  XT 


HARTLEY,  ROI5ERT  H.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  May  1 8,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  15,  1861  ; 
killed,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. 

HASKALL,  ELISHA  F.—  Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15, 
1861;  corporal,  November  14,  1862;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y.  Since 
died. 

1 1. \SKKLL,  ORRIX.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Xewport,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  as  a  minor,  June  28,  1861,  at  Al 
bany,  X.  Y. 

HASKIXS,  JOHX.— Age,  24  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  January  26,  1863, 
at  Washington,  D.  C. 

HASKIXS,  LEROY  G.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  May  1 8,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861 ; 
corporal,  date  not  stated;  transferred  to  Co. 
G,  September  17,  1861,  and  promoted  ser 
geant;  reduced,  date  not  stated;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

HAWLEY,  GEORGE  A.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861; 
killed,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. 

HAYDEX,  FRANK.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
June  16,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  A,  same  date;  wounded, 
September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. :  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. ; 
subsequent  service  in  Sixteenth  Cavalry. 

HAYDEX,  OSCAR  E.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  17,  1861,  at  Fairfield,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861  ; 
wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 
Md. ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  X.  Y. 

HAYES,  DEXXIS.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted, 
September  28,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  D,  October  16,  1861 ;  killed,  September 
17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. 

HAYES,  MICHAEL.— Age,  30  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  out,  May  4,  1863,  at  Phila 
delphia,  Pa.  Since  died. 

HAYXER,  GEORGE  E.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15, 
1861;  deserted,  September  19,  1861,  at  Sen 
eca  Mills,  Md. ;  since  died. 

HAYES,  ALOXZO  K.— Age,  33  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
X.  Y. ;  since  died,  in  Michigan. 

HAYES,  MARTI  X  V.  B.— Age,  22  years 
Enlisted,  May  5,  1861,  at  Graysville,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in.  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861  : 
transferred  to  Co.  K,  October  31,  1861 ;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

HEALEY,  JAMES.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted, 
October  7,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve  un 
expired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 
A.  same  date;  deserted,  July  8,  1862. 

HEATH,  DAVID  M.— Age,  40  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  musician,  Co.  F, 
June  15,  1861;  promoted  drum-major,  June 
15,  1861 ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  X.  Y.  Since  died. 


HECOCK,  GEORGE.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  June  1 6,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  same  date; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 

HEEXAX,  TIMOTHY. -Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  July  28,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  A,  August  4,  1861;  wounded,  September 
17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. ;  mustered  out, 
June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y.  Since  died. 

HEIDEL,  CHRISTOPHER.— Age,  22  years 
Enlisted,  May  7,  1861,  at  Graysville,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June 
15,  1861;  discharged  for  disability,  March 
26,  1863,  at  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  for  wounds 
received  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 
Md. 

HELMER,  AAROX.— Age,  32  years.  En- 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15, 
1861;  corporal,  date  not  stated;  sergeant, 
April  3,  1862;  killed,  September  17,  1862, 
at  Antietam,  Md. 

HELMER,  SAXFORD.— Age,  38  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
X.  Y.  Since  died. 

HELMER,  WILLIAM  H.— Age,  25  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June 
15,  1861;  promoted  second  lieutenant,  to 
date,  June  6,  1861;  resigned,  December  20, 
1 86 1. 

HEMMITT,  BEXJAMIX  A.— Age,  18  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June 
15,  1861;  wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at 
Antietam;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  X.  Y. 

HEMMITT,  FRAXCIS.— Age,  27  years.  En 
listed,  August  5,  1 86 1,  at  Xew  York  city, 
to  serve  three  years;  mustered  in  Co.  H, 
same  date;  transferred  to  Eighty-second 
Xew  York  Volunteer  Infantry,  June  8,  1863. 

HETTIXGER,  CHARLES.— Age,  18  years. 
Enlisted,  April  5,  1862,  at  Lenox,  to  serve 
three  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  same  date; 
died  of  disease,  July  6,  1862,  at  Harrison's 
Landing,  Va. 

HEUSTIS,  JOTHAM  A.— Age,  34  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15, 
1861;  corporal,  Xovember  14,  1862;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

HEWES,  CHARLES.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  December  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  F,  December  17,  1861;  discharged, 
May  22,  1862,  at  Annapolis,  Md. 

HICKS,  JOHX.— Age,  29  years.  Enlisted, 
May  1 8,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged,  June  16,  1861,  at  Albany,  N.  Y., 
as  John  Hix. 

HICKS,  LAWREXCE.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Oneida,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in.  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861; 
killed,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. 

HILL,  CLAREXCE  E.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H.  June  15,  i86t, 
?econd  lieutenant,  October  18,  1861;  killed, 
September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. 

HILL,  LUTHER  A.— Age,  26  years.  Enlisted, 
May  1 8,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  first  sergeant,  Co.  A, 


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HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-FOURTH  REGIMENT 


June  15,  1861;  promoted  sergeant-major,  Jan 
uary  i,  1862;  killed,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair 
Oaks,  Va. 

HILL,  WILLIAM  L.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1861,  at  Chazy,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861;  sergeant, 
date  not  stated;  wounded,  May  31,  1862,  at 
Fair  Oaks,  Va. ;  discharged  for  disability, 
October  30,  1862,  at  Philadelphia,  Pa.;  since 
died. 

HILLS,  ALONZO.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
May  1 8,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  .30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 
Since  died. 

HOBBY,  GEORGE.— Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
May  10,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861 ; 
wounded,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. ; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

HOCKRIDGE,  SIDNEY.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  June  16,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  same  date;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

HOFFMAN,  EDWARD.— Age,  44  years.  En 
listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  15,  1861 ; 
corporal,  date  not  stated;  died,  November  i, 

1862,  at  West  Troy,  N.  Y. 

HOFFMAN,   EUGENE.— Age,   21    years.     En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Columbia,  to  serve  two 
years;    mustered    in,    Co.    F,   June    15,    1861; 
discharged,  June  23,   1861,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

HOFFMAN,  LEWIS.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  June  1 6,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  same  date;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

HOFFMAN,  SPENCER.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  1 8,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  15,  1861 ; 
appointed  musician,  date  not  stated;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y.; 
subsequent  service  in  Seventh  Artillery. 
Since  died. 

HOGAN,  JOHN.— Age,  35  years.  Enlisted, 
May  15,  1 86 1,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861 ; 
discharged  for  disability,  August  15,  1862,  at 
Harrison's  Landing,  Va. 

HOLMES,  DENNIS.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
August  i,  1 86 1,  at  Hammondsport,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  I,  same  date;  mustered  out,  June  30, 

1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in 
Co.  B,  Fourteenth  Artillery. 

HOLSCHER,  FRANK  A.— Age,  23  years.  En 
listed,  May  1 8,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y. ;  since  died. 

HOPCRAFT,  THOMAS.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  March  29,  1862,  at  Lenox,  to  serve 
three  years;  mustered  in.  Co.  H,  same  date; 
transferred,  June  8,  1863,  to  Eighty-second 
New  York  Volunteer  Infantry. 

HORAN,  PATRICK.— Age,  24  years.  En 
listed,  June  16,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  same  date;  pro 
moted  sergeant,  December  i,  1862;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y.  Since 
died.' 

HOVEY,  CHARLES  W.— Age,  23  years.  En 
listed,  December  13,  1861,  at  Poolsville,  Md., 
to  serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mus 
tered  in,  Co.  I,  same  date;  corporal,  January 
i,  1862;  wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at 
Antietam,  Md. ;  mustered  out,  June  30.  1863, 
at  AlHanv.  N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in  Sec 
ond  Cavalry. 


HORY,  HENRY.— Age,  25  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  March  13,  1863. 

HOUGH,  JOSEPH  H.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15, 
1861;  corporal  and  reduced,  dates  not  stated; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

HOUSE,  ALBERT  W.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 
Since  died. 

HOuSE,  SQUIRE.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y.  Since 
died. 

HARENDEN,  ADAM.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Ticonderoga,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15, 
1861;  wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  An 
tietam,  Md. ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y.  Since  died. 

HOVEY,  EDWARD  C.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15, 
1861;  appointed  musician,  date  not  stated; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

HOWARD,  AMOS  S.— Age,  33  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  March  18,  1862. 

HOWARD,  WILLIAM.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15, 
1861;  died  of  disease,  October  9,  1862. 

HOWE,  ISAAC  G.— Age,  23  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861;  corporal, 
March  i,  1863;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

HOWE,  JESSE  W.— Age,  24  years.  Enlisted, 
May  10,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  August  14,  1861,  at 
Seneca  Mills,  Md. 

ROWLAND,  GEORGE  H.— Age,  38  years. 
Enlisted,  November  19,  1861,  at  Lake  Pleas 
ant,  to  serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  B,  same  date;  discharged 
for  disability,  March  19,  1862,  at  Douglas 
Hospital,  Washington,  D.  C. 

HUBBELL,  HENRY.— Age,  23  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861 ; 
killed,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. 

HUDSON,  SAMUEL.— Age,  37  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Rouse's  Point,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June 
15,  1861;  corporal,  date  not  stated;  sergeant, 
February  7,  1863;  wounded  at  Antietam, 
Md.;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y. 

HUGHES,  JAMES.— Age,  23  years.  Enlisted, 
June  9,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  August  6,  1861,  at 
Seneca  Mills,  Md. 

KURD,  HENRY  H.— Age,  20  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861; 
promoted  corporal  and  sergeant,  dates  not 
stated;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y. 

HURLEY,  JOHN  W.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15, 


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1861;  corporal  and  reduced,  dates  not  stated; 
killed,  December  13,  1862,  at  Fredericksburg, 
Va. 

HURLY,  TAMES  PETER.— Age,  24  years. 
Enlisted, "May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B.June  15,  1861; 
appointed  musician,  July  24,  1861  ;  wounded, 
May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va.;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

HURTERSON,  WILLIAM.— Age,  29  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  tails,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June 
15,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  X.  Y.;  subsequent  service  in  Co.  G, 
Second  Artillery. 

HUTCHIXS,  SAMUEL.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  April  2,  1862,  at  Lenox,  to  serve  three 
vears;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  same  date; 
Wounded,  June  30,  1862,  at  White  Oak 
Swamp,  Va. ;  discharged  for  disability,  No 
vember  14,  1862,  at  Washington,  D.  C. 

HUTTOX,  HENRY  T. -Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Pulteney,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15,  1861; 
wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 
Md.;  discharged,  Xovember  6,  1862. 

HUXFORD,  CHARLES.— Age,  35  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 

HUYCK,  ORRIX  D.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  May  10,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15, 
1861;  discharged  for  disability,  May  4,  1862, 
at  Fort  Monroe.  Vt. 

HYDE,  MIAL.— Age,  20  years.  Enlisted, 
December  9,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  un- 
cxpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  F,  December  17,  1861;  deserted,  July  21, 
1862,  at  Harrison's  Landing,  Va.  Since  died. 

IXGLESTOX,  WILLIAM  S.— Age,  21  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June 
15,  1861;  mxistered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  X.  Y.;  since  died. 

TACKMAN,     DAVID.— Age,    18   years.        En- 

"  "listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861 ; 
discharged  for  disability,  October  4,  1862,  at 
Washington,  D.  C. 

JACKMAX.  TIMOTHY.— Age,  27  years  En 
listed  February  24,  1862,  at  Camp  McClel 
land,  Md.,  to  serve  three  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  H,  February  24,  1862;  corporal,  no  date; 
died  of  disease,  December  30,  1862,  at  Fal- 
mouth,  Va. 

1  ACOBUS.      HEXRY.-Age,     27    years.       En- 

"    listed,    May   22,    1861,    at   Hammondsport,   to 
serve    two   years;    mustered    in,    Co.    I,   June 
15,    1861;    corporal,    January    i,     1862;    mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.   Y. 
Since  died  at   Keuka,   X    Y. 

JACOBUS,  JESSE.— Age,  24  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I.June  15,  1861; 
wounded.  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. ; 
died  of  wounds,  June  4,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks, 

JAQUAYS,  EDWARD  G.— Age,  24  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15, 
1861;  deserted,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks, 

JOHXSOX,  DANIEL  C.— Age,  26  years.  En 
listed,  July  28,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  A,  August  4,  1861;  captured,  July  i, 
1862;  paroled,  August  7,  1862;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 


JOHXSON,  DANIEL  R.—  Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  June  20,  1  86  1,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E.June  23,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  September  i,  1862. 

JOHXSOX,  JAM'ES.—  Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
July  i,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  unexpired 
term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  same 
date;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 

TOHXSOX,  JOHN  P.—  Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15, 
1861;  transferred  to  Western  Gunboat  Flo 
tilla,  February  17,  1862.  Since  died. 

JOHXSOX,  JOHN.—  Age,  24  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1  86  1,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  K,  June 
15,  1861;  sergeant,  June  i,  1862;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

TOHXSOX,  JOY  E.—  Age,  23  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1  86  1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  first  sergeant,  Co.  G, 
June  15,  1861;  as  first  lieutenant,  December 
2,  1861;  as  captain,  March  20,  1862;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  \. 
Since  died.  See  biography. 

TOHXSOX,  LESTER  M.—  Age,  24  years.  Ln- 
listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E.June  15,  1861; 
died  of  disease,  September  12,  1861,  at 
Seneca  Mills,  Md. 

TOHXSOX,  NATHAN.—  Age,  25  years.  Ln- 
listed,  July  i,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  un 
expired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co 
K  same  date;  transferred  to  Fifth  United 
States  Cavalry,  October  9,  1861. 

JOHXSON,  WILLIAM.—  Age,  24  years.  En 
listed,  July  i,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  same  date;  de 
serted,  October  19,  1861,  at  Seneca  Mills, 

TOIXY,  PETER.—  Age,  25  years.  Enlisted, 
October  24,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  un- 
exnired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 
D  October  24,  1861?  killed,  September  17, 
1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. 

TONES,    CHARLES    H.—  Age     18   years.     En 

listed     June    15,    1861,    *    Albany,    to    *?£. 

two  years;   mustered    in,   Co.    F,   same   date, 

deserted,  July  19,   1862,  at  Harrison's  Land- 

KEEXAX,  HEXRY  F.—  Age,  25  years.  En- 
listed,  October  19,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co  K,  same  date;  mustered  out,  June  30, 

KELLEY    A\XTHdXYY-Age,    19    years.     En- 

K?4ed,  May  18,   i86i,.at  West  Troy,  to  serve 

two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  ID,  1861  , 

corporal.    December    i      1862;    *** 

June    30,     1863,    at    Albany,    X.    \. 

KFLLFY  THOMAS.—  Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  iS,  1861  at  West  Troy,  to  serve 
two  vears;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  i3, 
1  86  1  -corporal,  January  i,  1862;  ;  mustered 
out.  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  \.  Since 
died." 


paroled,  August,  1862;  promoted  sergeant, 
Tune  i  5,  186.1;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
"at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

KELLOGG,  HENRY  N.—  Age,   3Q  years. 
listed,  August  5.   1861,  at  Xew  \ork  city  .  tc 
serve  three  years;  mustered   in.  Co.    H,  sa 
date;    corporal,  date  not   stated;   detached  to 


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Fifth  United  States  Cavalry  prior  to  Febru 
ary  28,  1862;  no  further  record. 

KELLOGG,  HERBERT.— Age,  17  years.  En 
listed,  August  i,  1 86 1,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  I,  same  date;  killed,  May  31,  1862,  at 
Fair  Oaks,  Va. 

KELLY,  JOHN.— Age,  25  years.  Enlisted, 
October  2,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  October  16,  1861; 
deserted,  February  i,  1862,  at  Poolsville,  Md. 

KEXEDY,  MATHEW.— Age,  25  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  Tune  15, 
1861;  corporal,  January  i,  1862;  died,  June 
1 6,  1862,  of  wounds  received  May  31,  1862, 
at  Fair  Oaks,  Ya. 

KENNING,  THOMAS.— Age,  29  years.  En 
listed,  June  14,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861 ; 
accidentally  wounded  at  Harrison's  Landing, 
Va. ;  discharged  by  reason  of  such  wounds, 
December  31.  1862,  at  Alexandria,  Va. 

KERKXER,  JOHN  H.— Age,  24  years.  Enlisted, 
May  14,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  C,  Tune  15,  1861;  deserted, 
March  16,  1862,  at  Harper's  Ferry,  Va. 

KERSHAW,  JOSEPH  W.— Age,  20  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861.  at  Litchfield,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F.June  15,  1861; 
discharged,  August  6,  1861,  for  wounds  acci 
dentally  received  at  Seneca  Mills,  Md. 

KTBBIE,  EUGENE.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted,, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Stratford,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in  as  musician,  Co.  K,  June  15, 
1861;  missing,  June  30,  1862,  in  action  at 
White  Oak  Swamp;  no  further  record. 

KIMBALL,  LEVERX  L.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  Osceola,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861 ; 
discharged  for  disability,  February  n,  1862; 
since  died. 

KIMBALL,  SAMUEL  J.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed  May  18,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861; 
captured,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 
Md. ;  returned  to  company,  January  14, 
1863;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
XT.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in  Second  Xew 
York  Veteran  Cavalry. 

KIMM,  JUSTICE.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Cedarville,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861, 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 

Kl'NG, 'DARWIN  E.— Age,  29  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  first  sergeant,  Co.  H, 
June  15,  1861  ;  reduced  to  sergeant,  date  not 
stated;  discharged  for  disability,  June  25, 
1861,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

KIXG,  EDWARD.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
June  11,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  Co.  D,  Tune  15,  1861;  died 
of  disease,  date  not  stated,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

KIXG,  JOHX.— Age,  27  years.  Enlisted,  May 
i,  1 86 1,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861;  corporal 
and  reduced,  no  dates;  mustered  out,  June 
30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

KIXG,  WILLIAM  H.— Age,  26  years.  En 
rolled,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in  as  captain,  Co. 
I,  June  15,  1861;  resigned,  January  i,  1863, 
at  Falmouth,  Va. ;  twice  wounded  at  Fair 
Oaks.  Va.,  Mav  31,  1862.  Died  i"  Texas. 

KIRBY,  EDWIN.— Age,  26  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861; 
wounded.  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. ; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863. 


KIRK,  JOHX.— Age,  27  years.  Enlisted,  May 
1 8,  1 86 1,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  15,  1861;  sergeant- 
major,  June  1 8,  1861";  first  fieutenant,  Co.  H, 
December  n,  1861;  captured,  September  17, 

1862,  at    Antietam,    Md. ;     exchanged    about 
Xovember  8,    1862;    mustered   in  as  adjutant, 
to  date   May  7,   1863;  mustered  out,  June  30, 

1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

KIRK,  ROBERT.— Age,  24  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Mohawk,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  G,  Tune  15,  1861;  killed, 
May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. 

KIRK,  WILLIAM.— Age,  30  years.  Enlisted, 
June  1 6.  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  A,  same  date;  sergeant, 
January  i,  1862;  sergeant-major,  June  i, 
1862;  second  lieutenant,  Co.  H,  to  date  March 
16,  1863;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. 

KXIGHT,  JOSEPH  H.— Age,  30  years.  En 
listed,  September  i,  1861,  at  Seneca  Mills, 
Md.,  to  serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years; 
mustered  in  as  hospital  steward,  same  date; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  XT.  Y. 

KXIGHT,  MORRIS.— Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
June  1 6,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  16,  1861;  dis 
charged  for  disability,  May  22,  1862,  near 
Georgetown,  D.  C. 

KXIGHT,  SMITH.—  Age,  28  years.  Enlisted, 
July  28,  1 86 1,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  August  4,  1861; 
captured,  July  i,  1862;  paroled,  August  7, 
1862;  no  further  record.  Since  died. 

LACKEY,  BEXJAMIX  B.— Age,  25  years. 
Enlisted,  May  18,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861; 
killed,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. 

LADEW,  WARREX  C— Age,  17  years.  En 
listed,  December  3,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  same 
date;  killed,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 
Md. 

LA  DEW,  WILLIAM.— Age,  33  years.  En 
rolled,  May  30,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  colonel,  June  15,  1861; 
resigned,  March  20,  1862;  since  died.  See 
biography. 

LAFLIX,  BYROX.— Age,  32  years.  Enrolled, 
May  30,  1861.  at  Albany,  as  captain,  Co.  F, 
to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in  as  major, 
June  15,  1861;  as  lieutenant-colonel,  March 
20,  1862;  as  colonel,  January  22,  1863;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. ; 
since  died.  Brevetted  brigadier-general.  See 
biography. 

LALLY,  MICHAEL.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
January  7,  1862,  at  Xew  York  city,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in  as 
musician,  Co.  C,  same  date;  reduced,  date 
not  stated;  corporal,  January  24,  1863;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

LAMB,  CLIXTOX.— Age,  26  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  Tune  15,  1861; 
killed,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. 

LAMBERT,  DAVID.— Age,  25  years.  En 
listed,  March  5,  1862,  at  Lenox,  to  serve 
three  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  same  date; 
deserted,  December  13,  1862,  at  Fredericks- 
burg,  Va. 

LAMOUXTAIX,  JOHX.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  June  1 8,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  .same  date; 
wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 
Md. ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  X'.  Y. 


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LAMPIIERE.  WARREN  L.— Age,  22  years. 
Enlisted.  May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861  : 
mustered  out,  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

LAM  PI  I  ERE,  WILLIAM.— Age,  20  years. 
Enlisted,  October  18,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  October 
21,  1861;  died  of  disease,  May  6,  1862,  at 
Shipping  Point,  Va. 

LANDERS,  DANIEL. — Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  1 8,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 
Since  died. 

LAXG,  MICHAEL.— Age,  37  years.  Enlisted, 
October  7,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve  un 
expired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 
A,  same  date;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albany,  X.  Y.  Since  died. 

LAXGWELL,  WILLIAM.— Age,  33  years. 
Enlisted,  May  18,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June 
15,  1861;  discharged  for  disability,  August 
8,  1862,  at  Fort  Wood,  X.  Y. 

LAXSING,  ABRAM  E.— Age,  34  years.  En 
listed,  May  1 8,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  15, 
1861;  sergeant,  January  i,  1862;  reduced, 
date  not  stated;  promoted  sergeant,  Decem 
ber  i,  1862;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  X.  Y. 

LARROWE,  ASA  S.— Age,  25  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1 86 1,  at  Xorth  Urbana,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15,  1861; 
corporal,  April  9,  1863;  mustered  out,  June 
30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

LARROWE.  EUGENE  B.— Age,  25  years. 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  two  years;  rqustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15, 
1861;  sergeant,  October  10,  1861;  as  second 
lieutenant,  Co.  K,  July  ist,  1862;  as  first 
lieutenant,  December  13,  1862;  as  captain, 
Co.  I,  March  17,  1863;  mustered  out,  June 
o,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 
SURE,  CHARLES.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  sergeant,  Co.  K,  June 
15,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  X.  Y.;  subsequent  service  in  Co.  C, 
Eighteenth  Cavalry. 

LAUGHLIX,  BARXEY.— Age,  27  years.  En 
listed,  June  19.  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  same  date;  killed, 
'May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. 

LAWSOX,  TOHX. — Age,  28  years.  Enlisted, 
October  2,"  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  un 
expired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 
D,  October  16,  1861;  transferred  to  the 


LASTJ 


Xavy,  February  17,   1862;  since  died. 
LAWTOX,    DAVID   L.—  Age,    33    years 


En 


listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15, 
1861;  as  second  lieutenant,  July  12,  1861;  as 
first  lieutenant,  October  15,  1861;  resigned, 
December  n,  1861;  also  borne  as  David  A. 
Lawton. 

LAWTOX,  LEWIS.—  Age,  25  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1  86  1,  at  Graysville,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861; 
corporal,  Xovember  i,  1861  ;  sergeant,  Jan 
uary  24,  1863;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

LAJOIE,  WILLTAM.--Age,  23  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1  86  1,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  musician,  Co.  D, 
June'  15,  1861;  discharged  for  disability, 
October  25,  1862,  at  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

LEDDECK,  GEORGE.-  Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15, 


1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
X.  Y. 

LEMLY,  JOHN'.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  February  20,  1862, 
at  Poolsville,  Md. 

LE  MUXYAX,  DANIEL  M.-  Age,  21  years. 
Enlisted,  May  18,  1861,  at  Tuscarpra,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June 
15,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  X.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in  Co.  G, 
Second  Cavalry;  since  died. 

LEMUXYAX,  EDWIX  M.— Age,  20  years. 
Enlisted,  May  18,  1861,  at  Tuscarora,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  first  sergeant,  Co. 
E,  June  15,  1861;  discharged  for  disability, 
August  31,  1 86 1. 

LA  PAGE.  CHARLES.— Age,  43  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  s^ve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I),  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
X.  Y. ;  since  died. 

LE  PAGE,  LEWIS.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
Xovember  4,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  D,  same  date;  wounded,  June  30,  1862, 
at  White  Oak  Swamp,  Va. ;  mustered  out, 
Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

LEPPER,  ANDREW.—  Age,  19  years.  Enlist 
ed,  M'ay  i,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two 
years;  musteied  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
appointed  musician,  date  not  stated;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y 

LEWIS,  AX  DREW.— Age,  28  years.  Enlisted, 
May  1 8,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861;  died  of 
disease,  September  9,  1862,  at  Xew  York 

LEWIS,  FRAXCIS.— Age,  44  years.  Enlisted, 
April  i.  1862,  at  Lenox,  to  serve  three  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  G,  same  date;  discharged  for 
disability,  August  8,  1862.  Since  died. 

LEWIS,  ISAAC  H.-  Age,  23  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1 86 1,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861; 
corporal  and  reduced,  dates  not  stated;  cap 
tured,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. : 
paroled,  date  not  stated;  deserted,  May  i, 
1863,  at  Annapolis,  Md. 

LEWIS,  MARK  A.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
May  7,  1861,  at  Fairfield,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861 ;  dis 
charged  for  disability,  October  14,  1862,  at 
Warrenton,  Va. 

LEWIS,  SOLOMAX.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15, 
1861;  discharged  for  disability,  February  21, 
1863,  at  Falmouth,  Va. ;  since  died. 

LEWIS,  WILLIAM.— Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
August  i,  1 86 1,  at  Brockett's  Bridge,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  K,  August  4,  1861;  killed,  September  17, 
1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. 

LEWIS,  WILLIAM  H.— Age,  23  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15, 
1861;  discharged,  March  27,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y.,  for  wounds  received  September  17, 
1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. 

LEWIS,  WILLIAM  J.— Age,  25  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Paine's  Hollow,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15, 
1861;  wounded.  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks, 
Va. ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
X.  Y.  Re-enlisted,  and  died  in  Anderson- 
ville  prison. 


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HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-FOURTH  REGIMENT 


LIFE,  OLIVER  W.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1861,  at  Batli,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15,  1861;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

LITTLE,  MARSHAL.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  June  16,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  same  date;  pro 
moted  corporal,  May  10,  1862;  wounded,  Sep 
tember  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. ;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

LLOYD,  WILLIAM.— Age,  29  years.  En 
listed,  May  14,  1861,  at  South  Trenton,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June 

15,  1861;    transferred    to    Co.    H,    March    3, 
1862;  promoted  sergeant,  April  i,  1863;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,    1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

LOAN,  JOHN.— Age,  26  years.     Enlisted,  June 

1 6,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years;  mus 
tered    in,    Co.    A,    same   date;    mustered   out, 
June  30,   1863,  at  Albany,  X.   Y.     Since  died. 

LOCK,  WILLIAM  H.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  June  2,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

LOOMIS,  JOHN.— Age,  20  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15,  1861; 
killed,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. 

LOOMIS,  MERRITT  B.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861; 
wounded,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. ; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
X.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in  Co.  H,  Second 
Cavalry;  since  died. 

LORMAN,  EDGAR.— Age,  36  years.  En 
listed,  May  1 8,  1861,  at  \Vest  Troy,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  15, 
1861;  discharged  for  disability,  March  25, 
1863,  at  Philadelphia,  Pa.  Since  died. 

LORMAN,  HENRY.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  May  1 8,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  Co.  A,  June  15,  1861 ; 
wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 
Md. ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al- 
banv,  N.  Y.  Since  died. 

LOTTLE,  JOHN.— Age,  38  years.  Enlisted, 
June  1 6,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  A,  same  date;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y.  Since 

LOUCKS,  BENJAMIN  J.—  Age,  24  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in  as  sergeant,  Co. 
K,  June  15,  1861 ;  reduced,  March  25,  1862; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

LOURAN,  JAMES.— Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
June  1 8,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  C,  same  date;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

LOWE,  THOMAS.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15,  1861 ; 
transferred  to  United  States  Cavalry,  Octo 
ber  13,  1 86 1. 

LOYI),  SIMON.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Fenton,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  C,  June  15. 
1861;  sergeant.  May  9,  1862;  wounded,  May 
31,  1862.  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. ;  mustered  out, 
June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

LOYD,  WILLIAM.— Age,  29  years.  Enlisted. 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in.  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861; 
transferred  to  Co.  G,  April  10,  1863;  no  fur 
ther  record. 

LUCKEY.  MARTIN.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  June  1 6,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  same  date; 


corporal,  June  8,  1862;  reduced,  date  not 
stated;  promoted  corporal,  December  i,  1862; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 
Since  died. 

LYOX,  HENRY  C.— Age,  24  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1861,  at  South  Pulteney,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  first  sergeant,  Co. 
I,  June  15,  1861 ;  died,  October  5,  1862,  of 
wounds  received  September  17,  1862,  at  An 
tietam,  Md. 

LYOX,  JOHX.— Age,  26  years.  Enlisted,  May 
1 8,  1 86 1,  at  Addison,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  E,  Jtine  15,  1861;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

MACK,  CLARK  E.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
May  1 8,  1861,  at  Tuscarora,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861; 
died  of  disease,  September  8,  1862,  at  Xew 
York  city. 

MACK,  WARREX  J.— Age,  38  years.  En 
rolled,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  first  lieutenant, 
Co.  G,  June  15,  1861;  resigned,  December  2, 
1861.  Since  died. 

MADDOCK,  EDWARD.— Age,  30  years.  En 
listed,  October  7,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  A,  October  7,  1861;  captured,  July  i, 
1862;  paroled,  August  7,  1862;  mustered  out, 
Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X1.  Y.  Since  died. 

MANGAN.  DAXIEL.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Middleville,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  i86n 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

MAXLEY,  LUTHER  B.— Age,  27  years.  En 
listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  Tuscarora,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15, 
1861;  died  of  disease,  July  3,  1862,  at  Har 
rison's  Landing,  Va. 

MAXLY,  BRADFORD  S.— Age,  31  years.  En 
rolled,  August  5,  1862,  at  Falmouth,  Va.,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in  as  assistant 
surgeon,  same  date:  as  surgeon,  May  12, 
1863;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 

MANNING,  OWEX.— Age,  23  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Paine' s  Hollow,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June 
15,  1861;  wounded,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair 
Oaks,  Va. ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. 

MANNING,  RICHARD.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Poland,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  C,  June 
!=;.  1861:  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. 

M  \XXIXG,  WILLIAM.— Age,  24  years.  En 
listed,  May  10,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  G, 
Tune  15,  1861;  sergeant,  January  22,  1863^: 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X*.  \. 
Since  died. 

MAXSFIELD,  JOHN.— Age,  35  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,"  1 86 1,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15,  1861 ; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in  Co.  D,  Six 
teenth  Artillery. 

MARSHALL,  SYRALL.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  April  18,  1863: 
subsequent  service  in  Co.  B,  Fourteenth  Ar 
tillery. 

MARTIX,  HEXRY.— Age,  35  years.  Enlisted. 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  i86lj  missing 
in  action,  Tulv  i.  1862;  no  further  record. 


ROSTER  OF  THE  REGIMENT 


'37 


MARTIN,  JOHN.— Age,  28  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Newport,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861;  deserted, 
October  23,  1861,  at  Poolsville,  Md. 

MATHEWS,  MANLEY  T.— Age,  21  years. 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport, 
to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June 
15,  1861;  promoted  sergeant,  October  5, 
1862;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y.  Since  died  in  Arkansaw. 

MATTHEWS,  LEMUEL  C— Age,  19  years. 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in  as  sergeant, 
Co.  D,  June  15,  1861 ;  discharged  for  dis 
ability,  February  7,  1863,  at  Convalescent 
Camp,  Va. 

MATTISON,  WILLIAM.— Age,  37  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.H,  June  15,  1861 ; 
sent  to  hospital,  November  4,  1862;  no  fur 
ther  record. 

MAXFIELD,  DANIEL  E.— Age,  19  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  18.61,  at  Portville,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15, 
1861;  discharged,  June  28,  1861,  at  Albany, 

MAXWELL,  JAMES.— Age,  —  years.  En 
listed,  March  3,  1862,  at  Lenox,  to  serve 
three  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  same  date; 
missing  in  action,  July  i,  1862,  at  Malvern 
Hill,  Va.;  wounded  and  discharged  for  such 
wounds . 

MAY,  JOHN  B.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Middleville,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

MAYO,  THOMAS.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted, 
June  20,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  23,  1861; 
corporal,  January  i,  1863;  mustered  out, 
June  30,  1863.  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

MCALLISTER,  JULIUS  S.— Age,  19  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June 
15,  1861;  discharged  for  disability,  April  20, 

1862,  at  Washington.  D.   C. 

McCABE,  LEWELLYN.— Age,  23  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1 86 1,  at  Wayne,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  I,  June 
15,  1861;  died  of  disease,  May  17,  1862,  in 
hospital  at  Alexandria,  Va 

McCAFFRY,  JAMES.— Age,  32  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y. 

McCARRICK,  JAMES  R.— Age,  18  years. 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June 
15,  1861;  discharged  for  disability,  April  26, 

1863,  at  Falmouth,  Va. 

McCASHTN,  HUGH.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed.  June  18,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in.  Co.  G.  same  date; 

Arm™VTvd™°TuSTV£e  ™'  l863>  at  Albany.  N-  Y. 

McCOLLUM,  JACOB.— Age.  27  years.  En 
listed,  June  20,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in.  Co.  E,  June  23,  1861; 
transferred  to  United  States  Cavalry,  Octo 
ber  8,  1861;  subsequent  service  in  Co.  G, 
Second  New  York  Veteran  Cavalrv. 

McCORMICK,  JAMES.— Aee,  23  vears.  En 
listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  West  troy,  to  serve 
wo  years:  mustered  in.  Co.  A,  June  15,  1861- 


M?CORMTrCK:  JAMESnCH.-eAge,  18  vears 
Enlisted.  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point  tr 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co 


H,  June  15,  1861;  first  sergeant,  August  i, 
1862;  as  second  lieutenant,  September  29, 
1862;  as  first  lieutenant,  Co.  K,  to  date, 
March  16,  1863;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

MCDONALD,  WILLIAM.— Age,  27  years.   En. 

listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  servt 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  musician,  Co.  H, 
June  15,  1861;  reduced,  no  date;  mustered 
out,  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

MCDONALD,    DUNCAN.— Age,    25    years. 

Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15, 
1861;  discharged  for  disability,  October  25, 
1861,  at  Washington,  D.  C. 

MCDONALD,   MICHAEL.—  Age,   is  years. 

Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport, 
to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June 
15,  1861;  wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at 
Antietam,  Md. ;  discharged  for  disability, 
January  19,  1863,  at  Philadelphia,  Pa.;  sub 
sequent  service  in  Co.  B,  Fourteenth  Artil 
lery. 

McDONALD,  ROBERT.— Age,  43  years.  En 
listed,  September  30,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  D,  same  date;  corporal  and  sergeant, 
dates  not  stated;  reduced  to  the  ranks,  June 
15,  1863;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. ;  died  since  the  war. 

McDOUGAL,  JOHN.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  October  16,  1861,  at  Stratford,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  K,  same  date;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service 
in  Co.  C,  Sixteenth  Artillery. 

McFEE,  ALBERT.— Age,  20  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

McGAUVIX,  JAMES.— Age.  37  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
tnustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany.  X. 
Y. ;  also  borne  as  McGanvire. 

McGEE,  PETER.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
October  10,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  un 
expired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 
D,  October  16,  1861;  transferred  to  cavalry, 
October  13,  1862. 

McGINXIS,  MARTIN.— Age.  25  years.  En 
listed.  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15.  1861: 
detached.  October  9,  1861,  to  Fifth  United 
States  Cavalry. 

McGOVERN.  MICHAEL.— Age,  23  years. 
Enlisted,  September  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls, 
to  serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mus 
tered  in,  Co.  K,  same  date;  mustered  out, 
Tune  70.  186-?.  at  Albanv.  N.  Y. 

McGUTRE.  PATRICK.— Age,  29  years.  En 
listed,  May  14,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C.June  15.  1861; 
sent  to  hospital,  August  20,  1862;  no  further 
record. 

McINNIS,  WILLIAM  M.— Age,  25  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to 
serve  two  years:  mustered  in,  Co.  H.  June 
15,  1861;  as  second  lieutenant,  Co.  G.  De 
cember  n,  1861 :  dismissed.  May  27,  1862. 

McINTYRE,  SIMON  P.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  H, 
June  15,  1861:  sergeant  and  first  sergeant, 
dates  not  stated:  as  second  lieutenant,  Co.  C, 
January  28,  1863;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
186-?.  at  Albanv.  X.  Y. :  since  died. 

McINTYRE.  JOHN.— Aee.  25  years.  En 
listed,  May  1 8,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve 


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t\vo  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  15,  1861; 
corporal,  December  i,  1862;  mustered  out, 
June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  A.  Y.  Since  died. 

McKIXEY,  SAMUEL.— Age,  29  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861; 
deserted,  September  29,  1861,  at  Seneca 
Mills,  Md. 

McLAUGHLIX,  JOHX.— Age,  27  years.  En- 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 
Md. ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 

McLAUGHLIX,  ROBERT.— Age,  23  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
corporal,  March  25,  1862;  killed,  May  31, 

1862,  at   Fair  Oaks,  Va. 

McLEAX,  WILLIAM  J.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Fairfield,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861; 
wounded,  December  13,  1862,  at  Fredericks- 
burg,  Ya. ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  X.  Y. 

McMAXUS,  BRAIXARD.— Age,  42  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1 86 1,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861; 
died  of  disease,  1861,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

McMASTER,  DOXALD.— Age,  28  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  Tune  15, 
1861;  wounded  at  Antietam,  Md. ;  'mustered 
out,  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

McMIXDES,  EZRA.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted, 
May  1 8,  1861,  at  Tasper,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861;  wounded 
at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. ;  died  of  disease,  October 
20,  1862,  at  Annapolis,  Md. 

McMULLEX,  JOHX.— Age,  26  years.  En 
listed,  May  18,  j86i,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  15,  1861  : 
discharged  for  disability,  December  5,  1862, 
at  Frederick.  Md. 

McXULTY,  MICHAEL.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1 86 1,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15, 
1861;  corporal  and  sergeant,  and  reduced, 
dates  not  stated;  mustered  out,  June  30, 

1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

McPHE,  GEORGE.— Age,  28  years.  Enlisted, 
May  1 8,  1861,  at  Tuscarora,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861; 
sergeant,  January  i,  1862;  mustered  out, 
June  30,  1863,  at'  Albany,  N.  Y. 

MEAD,  GARLAXD  W.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15, 
1861;  corporal,  date  not  stated;  sergeant,  May 
i.  1862;  killed,  September  17,  1862,  at  An 
tietam,  Md. 

MEAD,  GEORGE.— Age,  20  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Cedarville,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861;  trans 
ferred  to  regular  army,  October  6,  1861,  as 
George  G.  Mead. 

MEAD,  JOSEPH  S.--.\ge.  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 r,  at  Middleville,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15, 
1861;  corporal,  Mav  i,  1862;  mustered  out, 
Tune  30.  1867.  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

MECHAM,  OSCAR.— Age,  27  years.  Enlisted. 
May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in.  Co.  H,  June  15.  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  June  20,  1862,  at 
Washineton.  D.  C. 

METCALF,  THEODORE  G.— Age,  3*  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in.  Co.  B,  June 


15,  1861;  corporal,  May  13,  1862;  wounded, 
September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. ;  dis 
charged  by  reason  of  such  wounds,  1862,  at 
Fairfax  Seminary,  Va. 

MERCER,  CHARLES  W.— Age,  20  years. 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June 
15,  1861;  discharged  for  disability,  April  26, 
1862,  at  Washington,  D.  C. 

MERCHAXT,  MIXARD.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  June  1 8,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  same  date; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

MEURSCHAL,  JOHX.—Age,  40  years.  En 
listed,  July  i,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  un- 
expired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 
G,  same  date;  discharged  for  disability,  May 
8,  1862. 

MIDDLEBROOK,  ALLEX  G.— Age,  18  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June 
15,  1861;  sergeant,  Xovember  18,  1861;  first 
sergeant,  Xovember  22,  1861;  killed,  May  31, 

1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. 

MILLER,  CHARLES  C.— Age,  28  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  X.  Y.  Since  died. 

MILLER,  GEORGE.— Age,  43  years.  Enlisted, 
March  14,  1862,  at  Lenox,  to  serve  three 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  same  date; 
wounded  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va.,  May  31,  1862; 
discharged  for  disability,  June  20,  1862,  at 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 

MILLER,  J.  HERVEY.— Age,  34  years.  En 
rolled  at  Washington,  D.  C.,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  assistant  surgeon  De 
cember  1 6,  1862;  mustered  out,  June  30, 

1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

MILLER,  JOHX.—Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
August  i,  1 86 1,  at  Brockett's  Bridge,  to  >erve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  K,  August  4,  1861;  discharged,  Decem 
ber  29,  1861. 

MILLER,  MYROX.— Age,  20  years.  Enlisted, 
May  1 8,  1861,  at  Woodhull,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861; 
died  of  disease,  February  4,  1863,  in  hos 
pital  near  Falmouth,  Ya. 

MILLIS,  JAMES  H.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  July  28,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  A,  August  4,  1861;  transferred,  October 
n,  1861,  to  United  States  Cavalry. 

MILLS,  EDSOX  D.— Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
October  18,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve  un 
expired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 
K.  same  date;  transferred  to  Co.  C,  April 
13,  1863;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  X.  Y. 

MILLS,  IIEXRY.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted. 
May  7.  1861,  at  Graysville,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861; 
wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 
Md.;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
X  Y 

MILLS,  WILLIAM.— Age,  20  years.  Enlisted. 
May  7,  1861,  at  Graysville,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861; 
wounded,  June  8.  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. ; 
promoted  corporal,  Xovember  22,  1862;  mus 
tered  out.  Tune  30,  1863.  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

MIXER,  BRIXKERHOFF  X.— Age,  26  years. 
Enrolled,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in  as  second  lieu 
tenant,  Co"  D,  Tune  1=;,  1861;  detailed  on 
signal  servic";  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albany,  X.  Y. 


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MINER,  GEORGE  \V.— Age,  25  years.  En 
listed,  May  14,  1801,  at  saiisoury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1862,  at  Al 
bany,  X.  V.;  subsequent  service,  Co.  C,  Six 
teenth  Artillery. 

MINER,  HENRV  J.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1801,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  musician,  Co.  D,. 
June  15,  1861;  corporal,  date  not  stated; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

MOXETT,  MOSES.— Age,  28  years.  Enlisted, 
October  i,  1861,  at  Cnamplain,  to  serve  un- 
expired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 
D,  October  16,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

MOXETT,  PLINY.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
October  2,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  un- 
expired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 
U,  October  16,  1861;  died  of  disease,  March 

29,  1862,   at  Washington,  D.   C. 

MOXK,  ISAAC.— Age,  45  years.  Enlisted, 
Xovember  19,  1861,  at  Lake  Pleasant,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  B,  same  date;  discharged  for  dis 
ability,  October  8,  1862,  at  Washington,  D.  C. 

MOXK,  PHILO.— Age,  26  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861;  dis 
charged,  date  and  place  not  stated. 

MOOERS,  WOLFORD.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  September  20,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  D,  October  16,  1861;  wounded,  June 

30,  1862,    at    White    Oak    Swamp,    Va. ;    dis 
charged     for    disability,    March     i,     1862,    at 
Philadelphia,  Pa.;  since  died. 

MOORE,  HENRY.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861; 
died  of  disease,  July  20,  1862,  at  Harrison's 
Landing,  Va. 

MOORE,  JOHN.— Age,  23  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in.  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861; 
wounded,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va., 
and  Septembe'r  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. ; 
mustered  out,  June  10,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

MOORE,  GEORGE  Y.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
X*.  Y.  Since  died. 

MOREY,  JOHN.— Age,  36  years.  Enlisted, 
May  1 8,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  15,  1861; 
first  sergeant,  January  i,  1862;  as  second 
lieutenant,  Co.  E,  April  12,  1862;  as  first 
lieutenant,  Co.  G,  December  3,  1862;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y.; 

MORGAN,  JOHN.— Age,  23  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861;  wounded 
September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. ;  dis 
charged  by  reason  of  such  wounds,  February 
15,  1863,  at  Alexandria,  Va. ;  subsequent 
service  in  Fourteenth  Artillery. 

MORSE,  AMOS.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Graysville,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861; 
corporal,  January  28,  1862;  wounded,  Sep 
tember  17,  1862.  at  Antietam,  Md.;  mustered 
out,  June  30.  1863,  at  Albany,  XT.  Y. 

MORSE,  GEORGE.— Age,  31  years.  Enlisted, 
August  i.  1 86 1,  at  Brockett's  Bridge,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  K,  same  date;  sergeant,  date  not  stated; 
detached  to  Andrews'  Sharpshooters; 


wounded,  July  i,  1862,  at  Malvern  Hill, 
Va. ;  died,  of  such  wounds,  July  8,  1862, 
MOSHER,  RICHARD  D.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  sergeant,  Co.  G, 
June  15,  1861;  reduced  to  the  ranks,  August 
13,  1861;  killed,  June  16,  1862,  at  \Vhite 
House,  Va. 

MOSS,  WILLIAM.— Age,  33  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Stockbridge,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  July  25,  1862. 
MO  VERY,  THOMAS.— Age,  27  years.  En 
listed,  October  7,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  A,  same  date;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y.  Since  died. 
MOYER,  ADAM.— Age,  39  years.  Enlisted, 
September  2,  1861,  at  Manheim,  to  serve  un 
expired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 
K,  same  date;  killed,  December  13,  1862,  at 
Fredericksburg,  Va. 

MUDGET,  DAVID.— Age,  26  years.  Enlisted, 
June  20,  1 86 1,  at  Addison,  to  serve  unex 
pired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E, 
June  23,  1861;  corporal  and  reduced,  dates 
not  stated;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  X.  Y. 

MULHOLLAX,  WILLIAM.— Age,  27  years. 
Enlisted,  May  18,  1861,  at  Jasper,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
X.  Y. :  since  died. 

MURPHY,  ABRAM  R.— Age,  4  5  years.  En 
listed,  October  7,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  A,  same  date;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albanv,  X.  Y. ;  subsequent  service. 
Sixteenth  Artillery.  Since  died. 
MURPHY,  JOHX.— Age,  25  years.  Enlisted, 
October  7,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve  un 
expired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 
A,  same  date;  killed, 'September  17,  1862,  at 
Antietam,  Md. 

MURRY,  JAMES.— Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Fairfield,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  C,  Tune  15,  1861;  mustered 
out,  Tune  30,  1863.  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 
MURRY,  THOMAS.— Age,  44  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Russia,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  July  28,  1861,  at 
Washington,  D.  C. 

MYCUE,  JOHX.— Age,  44  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861; 
killed,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. 
MYERS,  HEXRY.— Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1 86 1,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  two 
years:  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861; 
transferred  to  United  States  Cavalry,  Xo 
vember  23,  1861. 

MYERS,  JOHX.— Age.  19  years.  Enlisted. 
October  28,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  un 
expired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 
F,  same  date;  wounded.  May  31,  1862,  at 
Fair  Oaks,  Va. ;  died  of  such  wounds,  June 
28,  1862,  at  Portsmouth,  Va. 
X\SH,  CHARLES.— Age,  20  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve  two 
vears:  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861; 
transferred  to  Co.  C.  March  i,  1862;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  i. 
XASH,  DAXIEL.— Age,  31  years.  Enlisted, 
December  21,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
unexnired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in. 
Co  B  same  date;  died  X'ovember  30,  1862, 
at  Little  Falls  X.  Y. 


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NELLIS,  FERDINAND.— Age,  24  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1 86 1,  at  Bath,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15,  1861 ; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service,  Second  Cavalry; 
subsequent  service,  Co.  L,  First  Cavalry. 

NELSON,  CHARLES.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  July  28,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  August  4, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in  Co.  D, 
Twenty-first  Cavalry.  Since  died. 

NELSON,  WILLIAM.— Age,  25  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Graysville,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in  Co.  H,  Four 
teenth  Artillery. 

NEYLAN,  GEORGE.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  July  28,  1 86 1,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  A,  August  4,  1861;  mustered  out,  June 
30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y.  Since  died. 

NICHOLS,  JOHN  W.— Age,  34  years.  En 
listed,  August  i,  1861,  at  Stratford,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  K,  August  4  1861;  killed,  June  30,  1862, 
at  Glendale,  Va. 

NICHOLS,  MOSES.— Age,  27  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15, 
1861;  accidentally  wounded,  May  24,  1862, 
at  Tyler  House,  Va. ;  died  of  wounds,  date 
and  place  not  stated. 

NICHOLS,  OSCAR  H.— Age,  23  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  sergeant,,  Co.  H, 
June  15,  1861;  discharged,  date  and  place 
not  stated. 

NOBLE,  WHEELER  W.— Age,  21  years. 
Enlisted,  May  18,  1861,  at  Addison,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June 
15,  1861;  died  of  disease,  July  12,  1861,  at 
Washington,  D.  C. 

NORRIS,  ENOCH.— Age,  26  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Mohawk,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861;  killed, 
May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. 

NORTHRIDGE,  GEORGE.— Age,  30  years. 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June 
15,  1861;  wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at 
Antietam,  Md. ;  discharged  for  disability,  Jan 
uary  27,  1863,  at  Philadelphia,  Pa.;  since 

NORT'HUP,    EMERSON    s.— Age,  19  years. 

Enrolled,  May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  second  lieutenant, 
Co.  K,  June  15,  1861;  as  first  lieutenant,  No 
vember  22,  1861;  wounded,  June  30,  1862,  at 
White  Oak  Swamp,  Va. ;  mustered  in  as  cap 
tain,  August  30,  1862;  mustered  out,  June 
30,  1 86s.  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

NORTHRUP,  JAMES  E.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  22.  1861,  at  South  Pulteney,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June 
15,  1861;  discharged  for  disability,  February 
15,  1863.  at  Alexandria,  Va. 

NORTON.  GEORGE.— Age,  36  years.  En 
listed,  June  25,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  same  date; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863.  at  Albany, 
N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service,  Co.  E,  Fourteenth 
Artillery. 

NOYS,  CHARLES.— Age,  26  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15.  1861; 
deserted,  March  28,  1862,  at  Alexandria,  Va.; 
also  borne  as  Nays. 


OAKES,  NELSON.— Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service,  Co.  H,  Fifth  Cav 
alry. 

OATHOUT,  JOHN.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
May  1 8,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  15,  1861; 
sergeant,  January  i,  1862;  first  sergeant, 
October  18,  1862;  appointed  second  lieutenant 
on  field  at  Antietam,  in  command  of  Co.  A- 
mustered  in  as  second  lieutenant,  December  3 
1862;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 

OATHOUT,  WILLIAM.— Age,  30  years.  En 
listed,  October  18,  1861,  at  Stratford,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  K,  same  date;  wounded,  May  31, 
1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. ;  mustered  out,  June 
30  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

O'BRIEN,  MICHAEL  STEPHEN.— Age,  21 
years.  Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little 
Falls,  to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 
B,  June  15,  1861;  sergeant,  May  13,  1862; 
first  sergeant,  May  30,  1862;  mustered  out, 
June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. ;  commis 
sioned  second  lieutenant,  not  mustered,  June 
17.  1863. 

O'BRIEN,  TIMOTHY.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  elected  first  lieutenant  at  organi 
zation  of  company  raised  by  Easterbrook,  but 
not  mustered;  discharged  for  disability,  July 
i,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

O'CONNOR,  ALBERT  A.— Age,  19  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June 
15,  1861;  corporal  and  reduced,  dates  not 
stated;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y. 

O'KEEF,  ARTHUR.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  June  19,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  same  date;  cor 
poral,  May  13,  1862;  killed,  September  17, 
1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. 

OLMSTEAD,  HENRY  M.— Age,  25  years. 
Enlisted,  May  18,  1861,  at  Troupsburg,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June 
15,  1861;  died  of  disease,  June  23,  1862,  at 
Fair  Oaks,  Va. 

OPPLE,  JOHN.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,'  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  musician,  Co.  B,  June 

15,  1861;    private,    July    14,    1861;    mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

ORCUTT,  ALVIN.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
May  1 8,  1861,  at  Rathbone,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861; 
wounded  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. ;  killed,  Septem 
ber  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. 

ORCUTT,  SELDEN  D.— Age,  24  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  H, 
June  15,  1861;  discharged  for  disability, 
July  28,  1862,  at  Washington,  D.  C. 

ORCUTT,  WILLIAM  H.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15, 
1861;  died  of  disease,  July  4,  1862,  at  Har 
rison's  Landing,  Va. 

OST,  PETER.— Age,  22  years.      Enlisted,  June 

1 6,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years;  mus 
tered    in,    Co.    A,    same    date;    mustered   out, 
Tune  30,   1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

OSTERHOUT,  ABRAM.— Age,  38  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to 


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serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June 
15,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. 

OSTRAXDER,  CLIXTOX.— Age,  -  -  years. 
Enlisted,  July  25,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mus 
tered  in,  Co.  I,  August  i,  1861;  discharged, 
September  2,  1862. 

OSWALD,  WILLIAM  L.— Age,  29  years. 
Enrolled,  May  18,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in  as  captain,  Co. 
A,  June  15,  1861;  discharged,  May  29,  1862. 
Since  died. 

OWENS,  SHERMAN  W.— Age,  30  years.  En 
listed,  June  20,  1 86 1,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  23,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  October  i,  1861,  at 
Seneca  Mills,  Md. 

OWINS,  JOHN.— Age,  30  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15,  1861; 
wounded  and  captured,  June  30,  1862,  at 
White  Oak  Swamp,  Va. ;  paroled,  date  and 
place  not  stated;  discharged,  March  4,  1863, 
at  Alexandria,  Va. 

PABODIE,  GEORGE  A.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  1 8,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15, 
1861;  sergeant,  July  31,  1862;  first  sergeant, 
date  not  stated;  wounded,  May  31,  1862,  at 
Fair  Oaks,  Va. ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

PATCH  ELL,  JOHN  B.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  1 8,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15, 
1861;  wounded,  date  and  place  not  stated; 
mustered  out,  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

PAGE,  WARREN.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Graysville,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861; 
detached,  October  13,  1861,  to  Cavalry. 

PAIGE,  WILLIAM.— Age,  44  years.  Enlisted, 
September  12,  1861,  at  Simcoe,  Md.,  to  serve 
unexpired  terms  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  C,  same  date;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

PALMER.  GEORGE.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June 
15,  1861:  deserted,  July  30,  1861,  at  Great 
Falls,  Md. 

PEEK,  WILLIAM.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
December  18,  1861,  at  Stratford,  to  serve  un 
expired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 
K,  same  date;  died,  June  5.  1862,  of  wounds 
received.  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. 

PELTON,  WESLEY.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  South  Pulteney,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15, 
1861;  died  of  disease,  July  22,  1862,  in  hos 
pital  at  Harrison's  Landing,  Va. 

PERKINS,  ASAPH  W.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlam,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861; 
corporal  and  reduced,  dates  not  stated;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

PERKINS,  CHARLES  O.— Age,  23  years.  En 
listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861; 
died  of  disease,  October  20,  1862,  at  New 
York  city. 

PERRY,  ADELBERT.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  B, 
June  15,  1861;  sergeant,  November  6,  1861; 
reduced,  May  13,  1862;  promoted  corporal, 
June  27,  1862;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albany,  N.  Y. 


PERRY,  JACOB  C— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  November  21,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  B,  same  date;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y.  Since  died. 

PERRY,  WILLIAM  HENRY.— Age,  18  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15, 
1861;  discharged  for  disability,  November 
15,  1862,  at  Washington,  D.  C. 

PETERS,  JAMES  W.— Age,  31  years.  En 
listed,  October  20,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  F,  October  29,  1861;  deserted,  Sep 
tember  8,  1862,  at  Tenleytown,  Md.  Since 
died. 

PETRIE,  CHAUXCY.— Age,  30  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  sergeant,  Co.  B, 
June  15,  1861;  reduced  to  ranks,  May  13, 
1862;  wounded,  June  30,  1862,  at  White 
Oak  Swamp,  Va.,  and  July  i,  1862,  at  Xel- 
son  Farms,  Va. ;  discharged  for  wounds,  Xo- 
vember  4,  1862,  at  Washington,  D.  C. 

PETRIE,  HAYDEN  J.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  May,  i,  1 86 1,  at  Graysville,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15, 
1861;  died,  June  i,  1862,  of  wounds  received, 
May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. 

PICKERT,  SOLON  S.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  October  18,  1861,  at  Stratford,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co 
K,  same  date;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albany,  N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in  Co. 
B,  Sixteenth  Artillery,  as  Solon  S.  Pickett; 

PIS£RCE,ieCHARLES.— Age,  24  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  F, 
June  15,  1861;  reduced,  at  his  own  request, 
date  not  stated;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

PIERCE,  WALTER  B.— Age  18  years.  En 
listed,  December  9,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  F,  December  17,  1861;  mustered  out, 
June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

PIPER,  FRANCIS.— Age,  25  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Frankfort,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
promoted  corporal  and  reduced,  dates  not 
stated;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  X.  Y. 

PLATT,  JOHN.— Age,  35  years.  Enlisted. 
September  2,  1862,  at  Manheim,  to  serve 
three  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  same  date; 
discharged  for  disability,  January  i,  1863. 

POLLARD,  FREDERICK  H.— Age,  43  years. 
Enlisted,  October  24,  1861,  at  Champlam,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  D,  same  date;  discharged  for  dis 
ability,  May  27,  1862,  at  Poolsville,  Md.; 
since  died. 

PORTER.  GEORGE.— Age.  26  years.  En 
listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  15, 
1861;  deserted,  September  10.  1861,  at  Sen 
eca  Mills,  Md. 

PORTER,  GEORGE  S.— Age,  26  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
vears;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  ifoij 
discharged  for  disability,  October  29,  1862, 
at  Washington,  D.  C. 

PORTER,  HENRY.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861 ; 
died  of  disease,  November  16,  1862,  at  Salis 
bury,  N.  Y. 


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I'ORTER,  JOHX  H.— Age,  20  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  July  30,  1862,  at 
Washington,  D.  C. 

I'ORTER,  JOSEPH.— Age,  24  years.  En 
listed,  June  22,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  same  date; 
discharged  for  disability,  October  7,  1862,  at 
Washington,  D.  C.,  for  wounds  received, 
May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. 

PORTER,  STILLMAX  H.— Age,  21  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June 
15,  1861;  discharged  for  disability,  July  30, 
1862,  at  Washington,  D.  C. 

PORTER,  STEPHEN  1).— Age,  44  years 
Enlisted,  November  10,  1861,  at  Herkimer, 
to  serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mus 
tered  in,  Co.  G,  same  date;  discharged  for 
disability,  February  8,  1862. 

POWERS,  CHARLES  L.— Age,  29  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Russia,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  i86y 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

POWERS,  SETH  D.— Age,  27  years.  En 
listed,  November  10,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  G,  same  date;  wounded,  September  17, 

1862,  at   Antietam,   Md. ;   discharged    for   dis 
ability,  December   n,    1862. 

PRESLEY,  ASHBAL  G.  H.— Age,  22  years. 
Enlisted,  June  10,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in  Co.  D, 
Thirteenth  Artillery,  and  Sixth  Artillery. 

PREVOST,  SAMUEL  B.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  October  24,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  D,  same  date;  mustered  out,  June  30, 

1863,  at  Albany,  N.   Y. 

PRICE,  HENRY  W.— Age,  31  years.  Enlisted, 
June  16,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  A,  same  date;  transferred, 
October  n,  1861,  to  Cavalry. 

PURCHASE,  GEORGE.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  April  2,  1862,  at  Lenox,  to  serve  three 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  same  date;  de 
serted,  June  4,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. 

QUACKENBUSH,  ABRAM.— Age,  18  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15, 
1861;  deserted,  September  21,  1861,  at  Sen 
eca  Mills,  Md. 

QUIN,  JOHN.— Age,  23  years.  Enlisted,  De 
cember  8,  1862,  at  Canajoharie,  to  serve 
three  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  same  date; 
transferred,  June  6,  1863,  to  Eighty-second 
New  York  \  olunteer  Infantry. 

RANAHAN,  PATRICK.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15, 
1861 ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al- 
banv,  N.  Y. 

RANDOLPH,  JOHN.- Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  2.2.  1861,  at  Hammondsnort,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y. 

RANK,  JOHN  E.— Age,  20  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Graysville,  to  serve  two 
years:  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out.  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

RANSOM,  ALBERT  W.— Age,  23  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1 86 1,  at  Chazy,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  first  sergeant,  Co.  D, 
Tune  15,  1861;  wounded  at  Fredericksburg, 
Va.,  December  13,  1862,  and  died  from  such 


wounds,  December  22,  1862,  at  Falmouth, 
Va. ;  commissioned  first  lieutenant,  not  mus 
tered,  December  7,  1862. 

RANSOM,  ERASTUS.— Age,  28  years.  En 
listed,  September  23,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mus 
tered  in  as  musician,  Co.  D,  October  16, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in  Co.  G, 
Fourteenth  Artillery. 

RAPPS,  RICHARD.— Age,  20  years.  Enlisted, 
May  1 8,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y.,  as  Richard  Rabbson;  also  borne  as 
Richard  Rappson. 

RARRICK,  DAVID.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1 86 1,  at  Wayne,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  July  i,  1861,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y. 

RATHBONE,  CHARLES  A.— Age,  23  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Norway,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861 ; 
corporal,  date  not  stated;  discharged,  January 
25,  1863,  at  United  States  General  Hospital, 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  for  wounds  received,  Sep 
tember  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. 
RATHBONE,  ORSEMUS.— Age,  29  years. 
Enlisted,  May  18,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15, 
1861;  discharged,  September  27,  1862,  for 
wounds  received,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair 
Oaks,  Va. ;  subsequent  service  in  Co.  G, 
Second  New  York  Veteran  Cavalry;  since 
died. 

RAYNOR,  JOHN  B.— Age,  23  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  G, 
June  15,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albany,  N.  Y.,  as  John  H.  Raynor. 
READE,  JAMES.— Age,  47  years.  Enlisted, 
June  20,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  23,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N. 
Y. ;  since  died. 

REDDEN,  JAMES.— Age,  24  years.  Enlisted, 
June  16,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  A,  same  date;  transferred, 
no  date,  to  Battery  B,  First  Rhode  Island 
Artillery.  Since  died. 

REDNER,  EDWARD.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Fort  Plain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  B, 
June  15,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albany,  N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in  Co. 
G,  Second  Mounted  Rifles. 

REGAN,  OWEN.— Age,  24  years.  Enlisted, 
November  19,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  B,  same  date;  wounded,  September  17, 
1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. ;  mustered  out,  June 
30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. ;  subsequent  serv 
ice  in  Co.  C,  Sixteenth  Artillery. 
RENEUR,  JOSEPH.— Age,  33  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15, 
1861;  corporal,  date  not  stated;  wounded. 
May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. ;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. ;  also 
borne  as  Reynor. 

RHINEVAULT,  NEWTON  S.— Age,  19  years. 
Enlisted,  May  18,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15, 
1861;  got  substitute,  and  then  enlisted  in 
Eighty-sixth  New  York  Infantry;  substitute 
deserted. 


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143 


RHODES,  CHESTER  S.— Age,  27  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June 
15,  1861;  color  bearer;  killed,  September  17, 
1862,  at  Antietam,  Md.  See  anecdote. 

RICH,  DAVIS  J.— Age,  32  years.  Enrolled, 
May  22,  1861,  at  Champlam,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  captain,  Co.  D,  June 
15,  1861;  dismissed,  May  29,  1862;  died  in 
Raleigh,  X.  C.,  February  16,  1869. 

RICHES,  JAMES  H.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  February  15,  1863, 
at  Alexandria,  Ya.  Since  died. 

RITCHIE,  MICHAEL.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15, 
1861;  captured,  June  30,  1862,  at  White 
Oak  Swamp,  Ya. ;  paroled,  date  not  stated; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N,  Y. 

RICKARD,  ARCHIBALD  DE  WITT.— Age, 
27  years.  Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Fort 
Plain,  to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 
B,  June  15,  1861;  died,  February  8,  1863,  at 
Windmill  Point,  Va. 

RIDER,  CHARLES.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15, 
1861 ;  died  of  disease,  July  9,  1862,  at  Har 
rison's  Landing,  Va. 

RIDER,  ELIAS.— Age,  24  years.  Enlisted, 
June  20,  1 86 1,  at  Addison,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  23,  1861; 
died  of  disease,  July  2,  1862,  at  Harrison's 
Landing,  Va. 

RTLEY,  CHARLES.— Age,  31  years.  En 
rolled,  May  i,  1 86 1,  as  first  lieutenant,  Co. 
F,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two  years;  mus 
tered  in  as  captain,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

RIPLEY,  EUGENE.— Age,  19  ears.  En 
listed,  May  10,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. 

ROBBINS,  ADAM.— Age,  30  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  "1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. 

ROBBINS,  DAVID.— Age,  23  years.  En 
listed,  May  i.  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15, 
1861 ;  discharged,  June  26,  1861,  at  Albany, 

ROBBINS,  GEORGE.— Age,  31  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15, 
1861:  discharged  for  disability,  July  i,  1861, 
at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

ROBBINS,  JOHN.— Age,  25  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Middleville,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. 

ROBBINS,  JOHN.— Age,  32  years.  Enlisted, 
May  1 8,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  private,  Co.  E,  June 
15,  1861;  died  of  disease,  February  6,  1863, 
at  Falmouth,  Va. 

ROBERTS,  WILLIAM.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  October  15,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mus 
tered  in,  Co.  D,  October  16,  1861;  appointed 
musician,  date  not  stated;  mustered  out, 
June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 


ROBISON,  SILAS  W.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  i-2,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  1,  June 
15,  1861;  sergeant,  July  i,  1862;  first  ser 
geant,  April  9,  1863;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y.  Subsequent  service 
as  Captain  Co.  C,  iSgth  Regiment,  N.  Y.  \ . 

ROBINSON,  WILLIAM  F.— Age,  18  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Mohawk,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15, 
1861;  discharged  for  disability,  July  2,  1861. 

ROCK,  THOMAS.— Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
July  28,  1 86 1,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve  unex 
pired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A, 
August  4,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y.  Since  died. 

ROCKWELL,  JOHN.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. 

ROCKWOOD,  TAMES  H.— Age,  22  years. 
Enlisted,  October  21,  1861,  at  Fairfield,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mus 
tered  in,  Co.  C,  same  date;  transferred  to 
Co.  H,  March  3,  1862;  promoted  sergeant, 
date  not  stated;  died  of  disease,  May  25, 
1862,  at  Fort  Monroe,  Va. 

ROGERS,  DENNIS.— Age,  20  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged,  January  12,  1863,  for  wounds 
received  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. 

ROOF,  ROMEYN.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  sergeant,  Co.  K,  June 
15,  1861;  discharged,  November  18,  1861,  for 
promotion  to  first  lieutenant,  Ninety-seventh 
New  York  Volunteer  Infantry. 

ROONEY,  LAWRENCE.— Age,  30  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15, 
1861;  died,  October  13,  1861,  at  Seneca  Mills, 
Md. ;  assassinated  by  Hiram  Burke. 

ROONEY,  PATRICK  J.— Age,  27  years.  En 
listed,  May  1 8,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15, 
1861^  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 

ROSA, 'JOHN  W.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
August  i,  1 86 1,  at  Brockett's  Bridge,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  K,  August  4,  1861;  promoted  corporal, 
November  i,  1861 ;  wounded  at  Fair  Oaks, 
Va. ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service,  but  in  what 
regiment  is  not  known;  lost  an  arm  in  this 
subsequent  service. 

ROSEVELT,  CORNELIUS.— Age,  24  years. 
Enlisted,  May  9,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam. 
Md. ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y. 

ROSEVELT,  GEORGE.— Age,  29  years.  En 
listed,  June  17,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G.  same  date;  de 
serted,  August  i,  1861,  at  Tenleytown,  Md. 

ROSS,  GEORGE  L.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 
Since  died. 

ROSS,  PENN.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted,  May 
22,  1 86 1,  at  Reading  Centre,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15.  1861: 
discharged  for  disability,  January  i,  1862,  at 
Poolsville,  Md. 


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HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-FOURTH  REGIMENT 


ROST,  BENJAMIN.— Age,  37  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 

ROUNDS,  ARMINEAS  S.—  Age,  25  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  G, 
June  15,  1861;  sergeant,  date  not  stated; 
first  sergeant,  Mayi,  1862;  wounded,  Septem 
ber  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. ;  mustered  in 
as  second  lieutenant,  Co.  E,  January  22, 
1863;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y.  Since  died. 

ROUNDS,  THOMAS  M.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
t>vo  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

ROWAN,  GEORGE  P.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861; 
corporal  and  reduced,  dates  not  stated;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. ; 
subsequent  service  in  Thirteenth  Artillery. 

PvUBBINS,  FOSTER.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  March  5,  1862,  at  Lenox,  to  serve 
three  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  same  date; 
deserted,  December  13,  1862,  at  Fredericks- 

RUBBINS,  WILLIAM.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15, 
1861;  killed,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antie 
tam,  Md. 

RUDDICK,  JOHN.— Age,  42  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  March  16,  1862,  at 
Philadelphia,  Pa. ;  since  died. 

RYAN,  MICHAEL  BUTLER.— Age,  20  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15, 
1861;  wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  An 
tietam,  Md.;  discharged,  March  31,  1863,  at 
Baltimore,  Md. 

SALISBURY,  WILLIAM  A.— Age,  19  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Norway,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15, 
1861;  killed,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antie 
tam,  Md. 

SANFORD,  HENRY  W.— Age,  25  years.  En- 
listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  sergeant,  Co.  E, 
June  15,  1861;  first  sergeant,  date  not  stated; 
as  second  lieutenant,  May  31,  1862;  as  first 
lieutenant,  October  31,  1862;  mustered  out, 
June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. ;  subsequent 
service  as  captain,  Co.  G,  in  Second  New 
York  Veteran  Cavalry. 

SANFORD,  HOSIAS.— Age,  24  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15, 
1861;  discharged,  date  and  place  not  stated. 

SANFORD,  ROBERT  F.— Age,  26  years.  En 
listed,  November  12,  1861,  at  Newport,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  C,  same  date;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

SANFORD,  THOMAS  R.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June 
15,  1861:  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. 

SARTWELL,  GEORGE  E.— Age,  23  .years. 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain.  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June 
15,  1861;  deserted,  October  27,  1862,  at  Har 
per's  Ferry,  Va. 


SASHAGRA,  AXTHONEY.— Age,  22  years. 
Enlisted,  October  24,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in  Co.  D,  same  date;  killed,  September  17, 

1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. 

SASHAGRA,  EDWARD.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  October  24,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  D,  same  date;  died  of  disease,  date 
not  stated,  at  Potomac  Creek,  Va. 

SATTERLY,  GEORGE.— Age,  25  years.  En 
titled,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15, 
1861;  died  of  disease,  January  14,  1863,  at 
Washington,  D.  C. 

SAUiNDERS,  NICHOLAS.— Age,  33  years. 
Enlisted,  July  28,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  A,  August  4,  1861;  sick  in  hospital, 
August  14,  1862.  Since  died. 

SAWYER,  LORIN.— Age,  24  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861; 
wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 
Md. ;  sent  to  hospital;  no  further  record. 

SCANLAN,  DANIEL.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  7,  1861,  at  Fairfield,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861; 
wounded,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. ; 
discharged  for  such  wounds,  March  27,  1863. 

SCHAFFNER,  MICHAEL.— Age,  43  years. 
Enrolled,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  second  lieutenant, 
Co.  G,  June  15,  1861;  resigned,  December  n, 
1861.  Since  died. 

SCHERMERHORN,  JOHN.— Age,  18  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  musician,  Co.  B, 
June  15,  1861;  reduced,  July  14,  1861;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

SCHMINKE",  JACOB.— Age,  23  years.  Enlist 
ed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Cedarville,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y.,  as  Jacob  Sminke. 

SCHOONMAKER,  SYLVESTER  F.— Age, 
:C  years.  Enrolled,  February  17,  1863,  at 
Albany,  to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in  as 
chaplain,  same  date;  mustered  out,  June  30, 

1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

SCOTT,  GEORGE.— Age,  36  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1 86 1,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  two 
years:  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861; 
wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 
Md. ;  discharged  for  such  wounds,  December 
19,  1862,  at  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

SCOTT,  JOHN  O.— Age,  26  years.  Enrolled, 
May  22,  1 86 1,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  first  lieutenant,  Co.  D, 
June  15,  1861;  as  captain,  May  30,  1862; 
wounded  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va.,  May  31,  1862; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N. 
Y. ;  since  died.  See  biography. 

SCOTT,  JOSEPH.— Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

SEAMAN,  JACOB  M.— Age,  25  years.  En 
listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F  June  15,  1861; 
died  of  disease,  August  18,  1861,  at  To- 
wonda.  Pa. 

SEDGEWICK.  WILLIAM  WAKE.— Age, 
23  years.  Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little 
Falls,  to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 
B,  June  15,  1861;  sergeant,  date  not  stated; 
discharged  for  disability,  June  27,  1862,  at 
Washington,  D.  C. 


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.SEECOM,  JOHN.—  Age,  3*  years.  Enlisted, 
June  9,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861;  dis 
charged  for  disability,  June  25,  1861,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y. 

.SHA\  ER,  ABIJAU  U.—  Age,  32  years.  En 
listed,  October  18,  1861,  at  Stratford,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  i\,  same  date;  discharged  for  disability, 
August  19,  1862. 

.SI1A\ER,  FREDERICK.  -Age,  26  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Frankfort,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15, 
i&6i;  corporal,  February  21,  1863;  mustered 
out,  June  39,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y.;  sub 
sequent  service  in  Co.  F,  Sixteenth  Artillery. 

SHELL,  SAMUEL.—  Age,  25  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1  86  1,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15,  1861; 
promoted  sergeant,  June  29,  1861;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

.SHEPHERD,  PETER.—  Age,  24  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1  86  1,  at  Graysville,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C.June  15,  1861; 
wounded,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va.  ; 
discharged  for  such  wounds,  March  31,  1863, 
at  Hartford,  Conn. 

SHERMAN,  JAMES.—  Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1  86  1,  at  Mohawk,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

SHERMAX,  SOCRATES  X.—  Age,  43  years. 
Enrolled,  May  30,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  surgeon,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  out,  March  6,  1863,  for  pro 
motion  to  surgeon,  United  States  Volunteers. 

SHERWOOD,  JOSHUA.—  Age,  25  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Fairfield,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  C,  June 
15,  1861;  reduced,  date  not  stated;  wounded, 


September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md.  ;  mus 
tered  out,  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

SHOEMAKER,  ANDREW.—  Age,  44  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Mohawk,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  X.  Y.  Since  died. 

SHOEMAKER,  JAMES  X.—  Age,  22  years. 
Enlisted,  May  18,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June 
15,  1861;  discharged  for  disability,  Xovember 
28,  1862,  at  West  Point,  Va.,  as  Henry  N. 
Shoemaker. 

SHOEMAKER,  JOSEPH.—  Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1  86  1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861  ; 
sergeant,  date  not  stated;  discharged  for  dis 
ability,  August  22,  1  86  1,  at  Seneca  Mills, 
Md.  Died  in  Andersonville  prison. 

SHOEMAKER,  JOSEPH  R.—  Age,  28  years.. 
Enrolled,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  a§  first  lieutenant, 
Co.  F,  June  15,  1861;  resigned,  July  26, 
1862. 

SIMMONS,  ABRAM.—  Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  August  i,  1  86  1,  at  Oneida,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  G,  same  date;  deserted,  October  29, 
1862,  at  Poolsville,  Md. 

SIMMONS,  GEORGE.—  Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1  86  1,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15, 
1861;  corporal,  June  i,  1862;  sergeant,  Jan 
uary  15,  1863;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albanv,  N.  Y. 

SISCO,  FRANKLIN.—  Age,  25  years.  En 
listed,  June  20,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  23,  1861; 
wounded.  May  31,  1862.  at  Fair  Oaks.  Va.; 
mustered  out.  Tune  30,  1863.  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 


SIXliV,  JOHX  S.— Age,  25  years.  Enlisted, 
October  18,  1801,  at  Brockett  s  Bridge,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  K,  October  21,  1861;  killed,  June  30, 

1862,  at  Glendale,  Va. 

SIX  BY,  XICHOLAS.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15, 
1861;  killed,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks, 

SKILLY,  WILLIAM.— Age,  30  years.  En 
listed,  October  18,  1861,  at  Philadelphia,  Pa.; 
to  serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mus 
tered  in,  Co.  K,  same  date;  deserted,  Feb 
ruary  9,  1862,  at  Poolsville,  Md. 

SKINNER,  JOSEPH.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  10,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged,  March  10,  1862,  at  Charlestown. 
Va. 

SLAWSOX,  JOHX  H.— Age,  23  years.  En 
listed,  June  15,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F.  same  date; 
wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 
Md. ;  discharged  for  such  wounds,  May  i, 

1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

SMITH,  ANDREW  A.— Age,  29  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15, 
1861;  killed,r  December  13,  1862,  at  Fred- 
ericksbursr,  Va. 

SMITH,  AXDREW  J.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15, 
1861;  deserted,  December  30,  1861,  at  Pools 
ville,  Md.:  since  died. 

SMITH,  CHARLES  D.— Age,  26  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1 86 1,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861; 
deserted,  February  i,  1862,  at  Poolsville, 
Md. 

SMITH,  CHARLES  E.— Age,  39  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Chamnlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  January  3,  1863,  at 
Falmouth,  Va.,  as  George  C.  Smith. 

SMITH,  DANIEL  C.— Age,  30  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years";  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15, 
1861;  discharged  for  disability.  January  2, 
1862,  at  Polsville,  Md.  Since  died. 

SMITH,  DAVID.— Age,  23  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 

SMITH,  EDWIX  F.— Age,  25  years.  En 
rolled,  May  18,  1861,  at  Woodhull,  to  serve 
two  years;*  mustered  in  as  second  lieutenant, 
Co.  E,  June  15,  1861;  as  first  lieutenant, 
October  9,  1861;  discharged  for  disability. 
October  31,  1862;  died  at  his  home  in  Wood- 
hull,  X.  Y.,  October  12,  1894- 

SMITH,  EMERSON.— Age.  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years";  mustered  in,  Co.  D.  June  15, 
1 86 1 ;' transferred  to  Regular  Army,  October 
9,  1862. 

SMITH,  FAIRFIELD  J.— Age.  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  1 8,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years'  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15, 
1 86 if  absent  sick  since  October,  1861;  no 
further  army  record;  since  died. 

SMITH,  HENRY.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Ohio,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861;  died  of 
disease.  September  17,  1862,  at  Point  Look 
out,  Md. 


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HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-FOURTH  REGIMENT 


SMITH,  HORACE  H.— Age,  23  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
transferred  to  Co.  B,  June  18,  1861; 
wounded,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks; 
wounded,  December  13,  1862,  at  Fredericks- 
burg,  Ya. ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  Ht 
Albany,  N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in  Co.  A, 
Second  Mounted  Rifles. 

SMITH,  JOHN.— Age,  23  years.  Enlisted, 
September  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  K,  same  date;  mustered  out.  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

SMITH,  JOHN  S.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
June  1 6,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  C,  same  date;  promoted 
corporal,  July  25,  1862;  mustered  out,  June 
30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. ;  subsequent  ser 
vice  in  Co.  H,  Seventh  Artillery. 
SMITH,  THEODORE.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15, 
1861;  corporal,  March  i,  1863;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. ;  sub 
sequent  service  in  Co.  B,  Sixteenth  Artillery. 
SMITH,  THOMAS.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted, 
March  i,  1862,  at  Washington,  D.  C.,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  D,  same  date;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service 
in  Co.  I,  Thirteenth  Artillery. 
SMITH,  WILLIAM  E.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  July  21,  1861. 
SMITH,  WILLIAM  P.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Schroon,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 
SNOW,  JAMES  GAGE.— Age,  27  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15, 
1861;  first  sergeant,  date  not  stated;  dis 
charged  for  disability,  December  9,  1861,  at 
Poolsville,  Md. 

SXYDER,  EDWIN.— Age,  34  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Norway,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y.  Since 
died. 

SPEERS,  JACOB.— Age,  29  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1 86 1,  at  Hammondsport,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  March  7,  1863,  at 
Falmouth,  Va. 

SPENCER.  FRANCIS  M.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  January  6,  1862; 
subsequent  service,  Sixteenth  Artillery. 
SPENCER,  ROBERT  H.— Age,  39  years. 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June 
15,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in  Cot  A, 
Fourteenth  Artillery. 

SPONABLE,  WELLS.— Age,  31  years.  En 
rolled,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve- 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  captain,  Co.  B, 
June  15,  1861 ;  wounded,  May  31,  1862,  at 
Fair  Oaks,  Va. ;  mustered  in  as  major,  Jan 
uary  22,  1863;  not  mustered  out  with  regi 
ment,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. ;  sub 
sequent  service  in  Fifteenth  United  States 
Infantry,  Veteran  Reserve  Corps,  at  Camp 
Douglas,  Chicago,  111.,  under  General  Ord; 
mustered  out,  July,  1865. 


SPRAGUE,  SAMUEL.— Age,  23  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15, 
1 86 1,  died  of  disease,  June  25,  1861,  in  hos 
pital  at  Albanv,  N.  Y. 

STEVENS,  AN'SON.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  December  21,  1861,  at  Little  Falls, 
to  serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mus 
tered  in,  Co.  K,  January  i,  1862;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 
STEWART,  CORNELIUS.— Age,  31  years. 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June 
15,  1861;  wounded,  date  and  place  not  stated; 
deserted,  June  13,  1862,  at  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
STEWART,  THOMAS.— Age,  32  years.  En 
listed,  August  i,  1 86 1,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  I,  same  date;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y.;  subsequent  service 
in  Co.  G,  Twenty-second  Cavalry. 
ST.  JOHN,  FREDERICK  B.— Age,  25  years. 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport, 
to  serve  to  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  Tune 
15,  1861;  deserted,  August  i,  1861,  at  Great 
Falls,  Md. 

STONE,  JAMES  M.— Age,  23  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  musician,  Co.  I, 
June  15,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

STOREY,  BENJAMIN.— Age,  44  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June 
15,  1861;  discharged  for  disability,  July  12, 
1862,  at  Harrison's  Landing,  Va.,  as  Benja 
min  Stoney. 

STACKING,  MARVIN  PETER.— Age,  22 
years.  Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Manheim, 
to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June 
15,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. 

STOWELL,  HENRY  C.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 
STRAIGHT,  MARTIN. -Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  10,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
corooral,  date  not  stated;  wounded,  Septem 
ber  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. ;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 
STRANG,  FRANCIS  A.  W.— Age,  25  years. 
Jbnlisted,  June  20,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  23, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y. 

STRATTON,  CALVIN  J.— Age,  24  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y. ;  since  died. 

STRAUSSMAN,  ERNEST.— Age,  40  years. 
Enlisted,  November  21,  1861,  at  Little  Falls, 
to  serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mus 
tered  in,  Co.  B,  same  date;  mustered  out, 
June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 
STRIKER,  DANIEL.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out.  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 
STUART,  JOHN.— Age,  28  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 
STURTEVANT,  DARIUS.— Age,  37  years. 
Enlisted,  May  18,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  musician,  Co.  E, 


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June  15,  1861-  reduced,  date  not  stated;  dis 
charged  for  disability,  September  21,  1862; 
since  died. 

SUITER,  JAMES  A.— Age,  44  years.  En 
rolled,  May  30,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  lieutenant-colonel, 
June  15,  1861;  as  colonel,  March  20,  1862; 
resigned,  January  22,  1863. 

SULLIVAN,  JOHN.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  October  20,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  V,  October  29,  1861  ;  deserted,  July 
19,  1862,  at  Harrison's  Landing,  Va. 

SOMERS,  GEORGE.— Age,  35  years.  En 
listed,  September  2,  1862,  at  Manheim,  to 
serve  three  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  same 
date;  transferred  to  the  Eighty-second  New 
York  Infantry,  June  8,  1863. 

SURDAM,  THOMAS  J.— Age,  24  years.  En 
listed,  June  20,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  23,  1861 ; 
mustered  out,  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

SWARTWOUT,  GEORGE.— Age,  26  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  quartermaster- 
sergeant,  June  15,  1861  ;  commissary  sergeant, 
March  30,  1862;  as  second  lieutenant,  Co.  A, 
May  30,  1862;  as  first  lieutenant,  Co.  C,  Jan 
uary  22,  1863;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albany,  X.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  as  can- 
tain  and  commissary  of  subsistance,  U.  S. 
V. ;  since  died. 

SWEENEY,  JAMES.— Age,  30  years.  En 
listed,  Mav  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June 
15,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. 

TAFF,  LABIEX.— Age,  35  years.  Enlisted, 
June  20,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  23,  1861; 
discharged,  January  7,  1863,  for  wounds  re 
ceived  September  17,  1862,  at  Aiitietam,  Md. 

TAFT,  JESSE.— Age,  30  years.  Enlisted, 
June  20,  1 86 1,  at  Addison,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  23,  1861; 
killed,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. 

TALCOTT.  JAMES  M.— Age,  25  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861  ; 
corporal,  November  22,  1861 ;  sergeant,  July 
8,  1862;  first  sergeant,  July  24,  1862;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y.; 
subsequent  service,  in  Co.  L,  Second  New 
York  Heavy  Artillery;  was  shot  through  the 
lung  at  Cold  Harbor,  Va.  See  P.  O.  ad 
dresses. 

TARBEL,  LEWIS.— Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Norway,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861  ;  mustered 
out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

TAYLOR,  CHARLES.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  November  10,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  G,  same  date;  corporal,  April  i,  1863; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 
Since  died. 

TAYLOR,  CHARLES  B.— Age,  23  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  F, 
June  15,  1861;  reduced  to  ranks  at  his  own 
request;  absent,  sick  in  hospital,  at  David's 
Island,  N.  Y. ;  no  further  record;  subsequent 
service  in  Second  Artillery. 

TAYLOR,  GEORGE. — Age,  30  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June 
15,  1861;  deserted,  March  10,  1862,  at  Bol 
ivar,  Va. 


TAYLOR,  HENRY.— Age,  25  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861;  dis 
charged  for  disability,  February  n,  1863. 

TAYLOR,  JOHN.— Age,  32  years.  Enlisted, 
November  19,  1861,  at  Wells,  to  serve  un 
expired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 
B,  same  date;  deserted,  March  28,  1862,  at 
Alexandria,  Va. 

TEMPLAR,  CHESTER.— Age,  —  years.  En- 
listed,  February  i,  1862,  at  Hammondsport, 
to  serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mus 
tered  in,  Co.  I,  February  5,  1862;  deserted 
from  hospital,  July  20,  1862. 

TEN  BROECK,  HIRAM.— Age,  24  years.  En 
listed,  May  1 8,  1861,  at  Troupsourg.  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June 
15,  1861;  corporal,  September  17,  1862; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

TERRY,  ALBERT.— Age,  24  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15,  1861 ; 
corporal,  date  not  stated;  died,  June  i,  1862, 
of  wounds  received,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair 
Oaks,  Va. 

TERRY,  JOSEPH  N.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  November  28,  1861,  at  Little  Falls, 
to  serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mus 
tered  in,  Co.  B,  same  date;  corporal,  May  31, 
1862;  sergeant,  to  date  from  May  30,  1862; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in  Co.  F,  Six 
teenth  Artillery. 

TERRY,  VICTOR.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15,  1861; 
died  June  i,  1862,  of  wounds  received,  May 
31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va.  See  incident  of 
Terrv  Brothers,  at  dedication. 

THAYER,  ELI  R.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15, 
1861;  corporal,  July  i,  1862;  mustered  out, 
Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

THOMPSON,  EDWARD.— Age,  43  years. 
Enlisted,  June  16,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  same  date; 
died,  December  13,  1862,  at  Falmouth,  Va. 

THOMPSON,  FRANK  E.— Age,  17  years. 
Enlisted,  October  7,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  A,  October  14,  1861;  mustered  out, 
Tune  30,  1863.  at  Albany.  N.  Y. ;  since  died. 

THOMPSON.  GEORGE  W.— Age.  30  years. 
Enrolled,  May  30,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  adjutant,  June  15, 
1861;  resigned  to  become  lieut. -colonel,  and 
afterward  colonel  in  One  Hundred  and  Fiftv- 
second  New  York  Volunteers,  January  28, 
1863. 

THOMPSON,  JOHN.— Age,  43  years.  En 
listed,  June  16,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in.  Co.  A,  same  date; 
mustered  out,  July  8,  1863.  Since  died. 

THOMPSON,  JOHN.— Age,  45  years.  En 
listed  May  12.  1861.  at  Champlam,  to  serve 
two  years:  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861  ; 
discharged,  no  date. 

THOMPSON.  RL'Fl'S.— Aee,  2<;  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Stratford,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
corporal  and  reduced,  dates  not  stated;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

THOMPSON,  SILAS.— Age,  24  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15.  1861; 
died  of  disease,  November  i,  1862,  in  General 
Hospital. 


HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-FOURTH  REGIMENT 


THOMPSON,  THEODORE.— Age,  20  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Strattord,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K.June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  July  29,  1861. 

THRASHER,  AUGUSTUS.— Age,  22  years. 
Enlisted,  May  7,  1861,  at  Ohio,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

THRASHER,  WILLIAM  D.— Age,  24  years. 
Enlisted,  May  7,  1861,  at  Ohio,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861 ; 
killed,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. 

TIMMONS,  CHARLES.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  July  28,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve 
unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  A,  August  4,  1861;  mustered  out,  June 
30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y.  Since  died. 

TODD,  JAMES  H.— Age,  23  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Fairfield,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861;  sergeant, 
November  i,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

TUNMCLIFF,  WILLIAM  B.— Age,  19  years. 
Enusted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y.  Since  died. 

TOMLINSON,  WILBUR  F.— Age,  29  years. 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  North  Urbana,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June 
15,  1861:  captured,  August  8,  1862,  at  Alal- 
vern  Hill,  Va. ;  exchanged,  September  13, 
1862;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in  Co.  M, 
Twenty-second  Cavalry.  Since  died. 

TOWNES,  HENRY  H.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15, 
1861;  discharged  for  disability,  November 
27,  1861,  at  Poolsville,  Md. 

TOWNER.  CHARLES  C.— Age,  23  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861; 
detached,  October  13,  1861,  to  Fifth  United 
States  Cavalry. 

TOWNSEND,  WILLIAM.— Age,  26  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Fairfield,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

TRAVER,  CHARLES.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  June  1 6,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  same  date;  cor 
poral,  December  i,  1862;  mustered  out,  June 
30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

TRAVER,  HENRY.— Age,  20  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  K,  June 
15,  1861;  sergeant,  March  25,  1862;  dis 
charged,  January  15,  1863,  for  wounds  re 
ceived,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 
Md. 

TRAVER,  WILLIAM.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  June  1 6,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  same  date; 
wounded,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 
Md. ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y. 

TRIM,  GEORGE.— Age,  25  years.  Enlisted, 
June  20,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E.June  23,  1861; 
mustered  out,  Junue  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N. 
Y. :  since  died. 

TROMBLY,  WILLIAM  H.— Age,  21  years. 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to 
serve  two  years:  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June 
15,  1861;  died  of  disease,  date  not  stated,  at 
Harper's  Ferry.  Va. 

TROY,  MARTIN.— Age,  23  years.  Enlisted, 
June  1 6,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years; 


mustered  in,  Co.  A,  same  date;  dishonorably 
discharged,  June  16,  1863,  by  sentence  of 
general  court-martial.  Since  died. 

TUCKER,  SAMUEL.— Age,  23  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15,  1861; 
corporal,  June  27,  1862;  mustered  out,  June 
30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

USHER,  FRANCIS  W.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  10,  1 86 1,  at  Potsdam,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  in  as  second  lieutenant,  De 
cember  11,  1861;  as  first  lieutenant,  July  26, 
1862;  resigned,  October  24,  1862;  recommis- 
sioned  as  first  lieutenant,  Co.  B,  Decem 
ber  30,  1862;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

VAN  ALLEN,  CHARLES  H.— Age,  19  years. 
Enlisted,  July  28,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  F,  August  4,  1861;  captured  and 
paroled,  dates  not  stated;  mustered  out,  June 

30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

VAN  ALLEN,  WARREN.— Age,  24  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in  as  corporal, 
Co.  B,  June  15,  1861;  sergeant,  May  13, 
1862;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y. 

VAN  ETTEN,  JOHN.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15, 
1861;  discharged,  December  i,  1862,  at 
Alexandria,  Va.,  for  wounds  received,  May 

31,  1862,  at   Fair  Oaks,   Va. 

VAN  COURT,  DANIEL  P.— Age,  24  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Schuyler's  Lake, 
to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June 
15,  1861;  discharged,  March  18,  1863,  for 
wounds  received,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair 
Oaks,  Va. 

VANDERWACKER,  LORENZO.— Age,  30 
years.  Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls, 
to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June 
15,  1861 ;  died,  September  n,  1862,  at  Phila 
delphia,  Pa. 

VAN  HAGAN,  JESSE.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
killed,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. 

VAN  HAGAN,  WILLIAM.— Age,  18  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Salisbury,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged,  date  and  place  not  stated. 

VAN  NESS,  IRA.— Age,  44  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  July  12,  1862,  at 
Harrison's  Landing,  Va.  Subsequent  ser 
vice  in  Veteran  Corps. 

VAN  PATTEN.  PETER.— Age,  19  years.  En- 
-listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June  15,  1861 ; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 
Since  died. 

VAN  PETTEN,  JOHN  B.— Age,  40  years.  En 
rolled,  June  15,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  'mustered  in  as  chaplain,  June  15, 
1861;  resigned,  September  20,  1862,  for  pro 
motion;  subsequent  service.  lieutenant- 
colonel.  One  Hundred  and  Sixtieth  New 
York  Volunteers,  and  colonel,  One  Hundred 
and  Ninety-third  New  York  Volunteers,  and 
brevet-bt-itrpriier. 

VAN  SLYKE,  MARTIN.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  June  15,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  same  date:  mus 
tered  out.  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany^  N.  Y.; 
subsequent  service  in  Thirteenth  Artillery. 


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VAN  VALKENBURGH,  LEWIS.— Age,  21 
years.  Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Paine's 
Hollow,  to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in, 
Co.  F,  June  15,  1861;  corporal,  date  not 
stated;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  X.  Y. 

VAX  VALKEXBURGH,  WILLIAM  S.— Age, 
28  years.  Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Paine's 
Hollow,  to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in, 
as  hrst  sergeant,  Co.  1- ,  June  15.  1861; 
wounded,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va.; 
mustered  in  as  second  lieutenant,  July  26, 
1862;  as  first  lieutenant,  January  28,  1863; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. 

VAX  ZILE,  GEORGE.— Age,  27  years.  En 
listed,  June  20,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  23,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
X.  Y. ;  also  borne  as  John;  since  died. 

V1BBER,  EUGENE.— Age,  25  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Mohawk,  to  servo 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  X.  Y. 

VOSBURGH,  DANIEL.— Age,  23  years.  En 
listed,  October  18,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  K,  same  date;  transferred  to  Co.  F, 
October  30,  1861;  discharged  for  disability, 
Tuly  14,  1862,  at  Fort  Monroe,  Va. 

WADE,  CHARLES.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1 86 1,  at  Wheeler,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15,  1861  ; 
discharged  for  disability,  July  15,  1861,  at 
Washington,  D.  C. 

WAIT,  FRAXCIS  J.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15, 
1861;  wounded,  June,  i,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks, 
Va. ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  X.  Y.,  as  Franklin  Wait. 

WALBY,  RALPH.— Age,  27  years.  Enlisted, 
December  6,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  vears;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  same  date; 
killed,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. ; 
also  borne  as  Waldbv. 

WALDRON.  GEORGE  W.— Age.  23  years. 
Enlisted, May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861; 
corporal  and  sergeant,  dates  not  stated; 
wounded.  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam, 
Md. ;  discharged  for  disability,  February  15, 
1863,  at  Washington,  D.  C. 

WALKER,  EDWARD  S.— Age,  37  years. 
Enrolled,  May  30,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  assistant  surgeon, 
Tune  15,  1861;  resigned,  November  3,  1862. 

WALLACE.  WILLIAM  R.— Rge.  23  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Graysville,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  first  sergeant,  Co. 
C,  June  15,  1861;  as  second  lieutenant,  De 
cember  25,  1861;  as  first  lieutenant.  Co.  D, 
January  i,  1863;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
"1863,  at  Albany,  X.  Y. ;  subsequent  service 
in  Co.  G,  Second  Veteran  Cavalry,  and  a 
still  later  infantry  regiment;  died  'at  Ohio, 
X.  V  .  Auenst.  1865. 

WALSH,  JAMES.— Age,  19  years.  Enlisted, 
June  1 6," 1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  A,  same  date;  captured, 
July  i,  1862,  place  not  stated;  paroled,  date 
and  place  not  stated;  discharged  for  dis 
ability,  Xovembe.r  27,  1862,  at  Alexandria, 
Va. 

WALTON,  HENRY  H.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  October  18.  1861.  at  Little  Falls,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years:  mustered 
in.  Co.  K,  same  date;  corporal.  February  7, 
1863;  mustered  out,  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Al 


bany,  X.  Y. ;  subsequent  service,  Co.  H,  Six 
teenth  Xew  York  Artillery. 

WALTOX,  WILLIAM  S.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Fairfield,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
as  second  lieutenant,  Xovember  22,  1861; 
wounded  and  captured,  June  30,  1862,  at 
Glendale,  Va. ;  mustered  in  as  first  lieuten 
ant,  July  i,  1862;  as  captain,  Co.  H,  Novem 
ber  ii,  1862;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863, 
at  Albany,  X.  Y.  See  biography. 

WARDOX,  CHARLES.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15, 
1861;  deserted,  November  24,  1862,  at  Alex 
andria,  Va. 

\\ARFORD,  BEXJAMIX  H.— Age,  30  years. 
Enrolled,  May  18,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in  as  second  lieu 
tenant,  Co.  A,  June  15,  1861;  captain,  May 
30,  1862;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  XT.  Y. ;  not  commissioned  as  second 
lieutenant;  commissioned  first  lieutenant, 
July  4,  1861,  with  rank  from  May  18,  1861, 
original;  captain,  June  5,  1862,  with  rank  from 
May  30,  1862.  vice  W.  L.  Oswald,  discharged; 
since  died.  See  biography. 

WARNER,  ANDREW.— Age,  31  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Poland,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

WARNER,  WILLIAM  X.— Age,  25  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Graysville,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
wounded,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. ; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

WATERHOUSE,  GEORGE  J.— Age,  20  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve 
two  years:  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  June  15,  1861; 
accidentally  killed,  July  20,  1861,  at  Wash 
ington,  D.  C. 

WATSOX,  HEXRY  H.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  October  18,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mus 
tered  in,  Co.  K,  same  date;  transferred  to 
Co.  C,  XTovember  4,  1861;  no  further  record. 

WATSOX,  JAMES  A.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15,  1861 ; 
corporal,  date  not  stated;  sergeant,  February 
28,  1863;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y. 

WAYMAN,  CHRISTIAN.— Age,  23  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  first  sergeant, 
Co.  F,  June  15,  1861;  reduced,  October  20, 
1862;  discharged  for  disability,  February  15, 
1863,  at  Washington,  D.  C. ;  also  borne  as 
Weyman. 

WEBB,  GEORGE.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
July  28,  1 86 1,  at  West  Troy,  to  serve  un 
expired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 
A,  August  4,  1861;  transferred  to  Navy, 
February  17,  1862;  subsequent  service  in 
Twenty-fourth  Cavalry. 

WEBER,  RICHARD.— Age,  21  years.  En 
listed,  June  15,  1861,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  same  date; 
wounded,  May  31,  1862.  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. ; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 
Since  died. 

WEBER,  WILLIAM.— Age.  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30.  1863,  at  Albany, 
X.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in  Second  Artil 
lery. 


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HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-FOURTH  REGIMENT 


WEBSTER,  WILLIAM  R.— Age,  44  years. 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Champlain,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June 
15,  1861;  wounded,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair 
Oaks,  Ya. ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  X.  Y. 

WELLS,  EDWARD  J.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  musician,  Co.  H, 
June  15,  1861;  discharged,  September  10, 

1 86 1,  at  Seneca  Mills,  Md.,  as  Edgar  Wells 
WELLS,    HAMILTON.— Age,    45    years.      En 
listed,  November  19,   1861,  at  Wells,  to  serve 
unexpired   term    of    two   years;    mustered   in, 
Co.    B,    same   date;    wounded,    September   17, 

1862,  at   Antietam,   Md. ;    discharged   for   dis 
ability,    December    15,    1862,    at    Philadelphia, 

WELSH,  PATRICK.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  June  1 6,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  same  date;  mus 
tered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 
\VH EATON,  WELLINGTON.— Age,  18  years. 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Bath,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I.June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 
WHEELER,  FRANKLIN  E.— Age,  21  years. 
Enlisted,  June  20,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  23,  1861 ; 
wounded,  date  and  place  not  stated;  de 
serted,  June  8,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. 
WHEELER,  JAMES  B.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  September  27,  1861,  at  Hammonds- 
port,  to  serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  I,  same  date;  corporal,  Jan 
uary  i,  1862,  and  sergeant,  April  9,  1863; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in  Co.  F,  Sixteenth 
Artillery. 

WHEELER,  PETER.— Age,  23  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 
Subsequent  service  in  Second  N.  Y.  Artil 
lery,  in  which  he  died. 

WHITBECK,  HENRY  L.— Age,  22  years. 
Enlisted,  May  18,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June 
15,  1861;  corporal  and  reduced,  dates  not 
stated;  discharged  for  disability,  January  18, 
1863,  at  Frederick,  Md.  Since  died. 

WHITE,  DANIEL.— Age,  22  years.  Enlisted, 
June  20,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve  two 
vears;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  23,  1861; 
killed,  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. 

WHITE,  EDWARD.— Age,  30  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  as  musician,  Co. 
F,  to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in  as  fife 
major,  June  15,  1861;  transferred  to  Co.  F, 
September  i,  1862,  and  reduced  to  musician; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y. ;  also  borne  as  Edwin  White.  Since 
died. 

WHITE,  HENRY.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
June  1 6,  1 86 1,  at  Albany,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  A,  same  date;  transferred 
to  Cavalry,  October  n,  1861. 

WHITE,  ISAAC.— Age,  26  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Mohawk,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861;  ser 
geant,  date  not  stated;  mustered  out,  June 
30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y.  Since  died. 

WHITE,  JOHN.— Age,  31  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1861,  at  Paine's  Hollow,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

WHITE,  THOMAS.— Age.  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 


two  years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  F, 
June  15,  1861;  sergeant,  date  not  stated; 
wounded,  May  31  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va.; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 
-'KITE,  WILLIAM.— Age,  35  years.  En- 


WHITE 
listed,  May 


-Age,    35    years. 
1 86 1,  at  Albany,   to  serve  two 


years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861; 
killed,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. 
WHITEHEAD,  SAMUEL.— Age,  18  years. 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport, 
to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June 
15,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. 

WHITLOCK,  ROBERT.— Age,  23  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B.June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 
WHITMAN,  RICHARD.— Age,  26  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861; 
transferred  to  Co.  H,  April  i,  1862;  absent, 
sick  in  General  Hospital,  August  15,  1862; 
no  further  record;  subsequent  service  in  Co. 
H,  Fourteenth  Artillery. 

WHITMARSH,  RILEY  C.— Age,  21  years. 
Enlisted,  May  18,  1861,  at  West  Troy,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  A,  June 
15,  1861;  discharged  for  disability,  Septem 
ber  1 8,  1862,  at  Falmouth,  Va.  (Probably 
error,  as  the  regiment  was  then  at  Antietam. 
—Ed.) 

WHITTLETON,  THOMAS.— Age,  25  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Norway,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 
WIGHT,  ELERSON.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Ilion,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
corporal,  date  not  stated;  mustered  out,  June 
30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

WILCOTT,  WILFORD.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  December  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to 
serve  unexpired  term  of  two  years;  mustered 
in,  Co.  F,  December  17,  1861;  died  of  dis 
ease,  August  31,  1862,  in  hospital  at  Fort 
Monroe,  Va. 

WILDRICK,  GEORGE  W.— Age,  28  years. 
Enlisted,  May  18,  1861,  at  Woodhull,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  sergeant,  Co.  E, 
June  15,  1861;  as  second  lieutenant,  October 
8,  1861;  discharged,  April  10,  1862;  died  at 
Addison,  N.  Y.,  August  3,  1886. 
WILEY,  DAVID.— Age,  24  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  G,  June  15,  1861;  corporal, 
October  8,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30, 
1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

WILL,  PHILIP.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15,  1861; 
wounded,  May  31,  1862,  at  Fair  Oaks,  Va. ; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 
Since  died. 

WILLIAMS,  ARTHUR.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1 86 1,  at  Rouse's  Point,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June 
15,  1861;  discharged  for  disability,  May  14, 

1862,  at  Yorktown,   Va. ;   since  died. 
WILLIAMS,      GEORGE     W.— Age,   29  years. 

Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport, 
to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in  as  corporal, 
Co.  I,  June  15,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30, 

1863,  at   Albany.    N.    Y.      Since   died. 
WILLIAMS,    JOHN.— Age,    26    years.         En 
listed,    May    i,    1 86 1,    at   Salisbury,    to    serve 
two   years;    mustered    in   as   corporal,    Co.   K, 
Tune   is,  1861;  killed,  May  31,    1862,  at  Fair 
Oaks,  Va. 


ROSTER  OF  THE  REGIMENT 


WILLOUGHBY,  CHARLES  A.— Age,  18 
years.  Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Norway, 
to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  C,  June 
15,  1861;  discharged,  March  18,  1863,  from 
hospital,  at  Baltimore,  Md.,  for  wounds  re 
ceived  September  17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md. 

WILSON,  ELIHU.— Age,  21  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1 86 1,  at  Champlain,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15,  1861; 
mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Albany, 
N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service  in  Co.  I,  Sixteenth 
Artillery;  since  died. 

WILSON,  HARVEY  J.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1 86 1,  at  Champlain,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  D,  June  15, 
1861;  died  of  disease,  October  26,  1862,  at 
Harper's  Ferry,  Va. 

WILSON,  JAMES  E.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  18,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. 

WILSON,  JOHN  L.— Age,  19  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. ;  also  borne  as  John  L. 
Wheeler. 

WITHERSTINE,  ABRAM  D.— Age,  30 
years.  Enlisted,  March  3,  1862,  at  Lenox, 
to  serve  three  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H, 
same  date;  died  of  disease,  August  12,  1862, 
in  General  Hospital. 

WOMBAUGH,  CHARLES  H.— Age,  22  years 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  June  15, 
1861;  discharged,  June  15,  1861,  for  promo 
tion  to  paymaster;  commissioned  paymaster, 
not  mustered,  July  4,  1861,  with  rank  from 
May  30,  1861,  original;  since  died. 

WOODRUFF,  DARIUS  A.— Age,  19  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Herkimer,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  F.June  15,  1861; 
discharged  for  disability,  March  24,  1863,  at 
Falmouth,  Va.,  as  Darius  J.  Woodruff. 

WOODRUFF,  GEORGE  W.— Age,  21  years. 
Enlisted,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport, 
to  serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June 
15,  1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. 

WOODRUFF,  VOLNEY.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1861,  at  Hammondsport,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15, 
1861;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y. ;  subsequent  service,  Co.  B, 
Fourteenth  Artillery. 

WOODS,  THOMAS.— Age,  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15,  1861; 
wounded,  December  13.  i8'=>2.  at  Fredericks- 
burg,  Va. ;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. 

WOOLYER,  AMOS  N.— Age,  32  years.  En 
listed,  September  2,  1862,  at  Manheim,  to 
serve  three  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  same 
date;  transferred  to  Eighty-second  New  York 
Infantry,  June  8,  1863. 


WOOLVER,  OLIVER  A.— Age,  30  years.  En 
listed,  September  2,  1861,  at  Manheim,  to 
serve  three  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  K,  same 
date  ;  transferred  to  Eighty-second  New  York 
Infantry,  June  8,  1863. 

WRIGHT,  EZRA.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
March,  1861,  at  Lenox,  to  serve  three  years; 
mustered  in,  Co.  H,  same  date;  wounded  at 
Fredericksburg,  Va.,  December  13,  1862; 
transferred  to  Eighty-second  New  York  In 
fantry,  June  8,  1863. 

WRIGHT,  JAMES  O.— Age,  22  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1861,  at  Ticonderoga,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  H,  June  15, 
1861;  corporal,  date  not  stated;  sergeant, 
July  i,  1862;  first  sergeant,  January  28, 
1863;  mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  at  Al 
bany,  N.  Y. 

WRIGHT,  JOHN.— Age,  18  years.  Enlisted, 
May  22,  1 86 1,  at  Hammondsport,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  I,  June  15, 
1861;  died  of  disease,  May  19,  1862,  in  hos 
pital  at  Fortress  Monroe,  Va. 

WRIGHT.  JOHN  B.— Age,  27  years.  En 
rolled,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Crown  Point,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  second  lieutenant, 
Co.  H,  June  15,  1861;  as  first  lieutenant, 
October  20,  1861;  as  captain,  June  15,  1862; 
resigned,  Tune  18,  1862. 

WRAUGHT,  HOMER.— A<re.  18  years.  En 
listed,  May  i,  1 86 1,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15,  1861  ; 
died,  October  29,  1861,  at  Poolsville,  Md. 

YOUNG,  EDWrARD.— Age,  20  years.  En 
listed,  May  20,  1861,  at  Addison,  to  serve 
two  years:  mustered  in,  Co.  E,  Tune  15,  1861- 
corporal.  May  31,  1862;  wounded,  September 
17,  1862,  at  Antietam,  Md.,  and  December 
13,  1862,  at  Fredericksburg,  Va. ;  mustered 
out,  Tune  30,  1863,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

YOUNGS,  VAN  BUREN.— Age,  21  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to 
serve  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June 
15,  1861;  deserted,  August  15,  1861,  at  Great 
Falls.  Md. 

ZIMMERMAN,  MARTIN.— Age,  18  years. 
Enlisted,  May  i,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  June  15,  1861; 
appointed  musician,  date  not  stated:  deserted, 
September  21,  1861,  at  Seneca  Mills.  Md. 

ZIPPERLY,  EZRA.— Aee.  28  vears.  Enlisted 
June  29,  1861,  at  Little  Falls,  to  serve  two 
years;  mustered  in,  Co.  B,  same  date;  dis 
charged  for  disability,  October  i,  1861,  at 
Washington.  D.  C. 

ZAUGG,  CHRISTIAN.— Age,  34  years.  En 
listed,  May  22,  1 86 1,  at  Champlain.  to  serve 
two  years;  mustered  in  as  corporal,  Co.  D, 
June  15,  1861;  deserted,  February  21,  1862, 
pt  Poolsville.  Md.  (The  statement  of  his 
desertion  is  nrobably  an  error.  We  think  be 
died  as  resuK  of  wounds  received  at  Seneca 
Mills,  Md.,  September  16.  1861.  See  anec 
dote.— Ed. 

ZUFELT,  DAVID.— Age,  n  years.  Enlisted. 
October  7,  1861.  at  West  Troy,  to  serve  un- 
expired  term  of  two  years;  mustered  in,  Co. 
A,  same  date;  mustered  out,  June  30.  1863, 
at  Albany.  N.  Y. 


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STATISTICS. 

Total  Number  on  These  Lists,  by  Actual  Count 1008 

Number  of  men  in  regiment  at  time  of  muster  in,  June  15,  1861,  by  report  of" 
Adjutant  General  was: 

Staff  Officers I0 

Company  Officers. . ^o 

Enlisted  Men 766 

Number  of  recruits  received  during  service,  therefore,  was, 

officers  and  enlisted  men 202 

Total  number  on  these  lists -             1008- 

What  became  of  these  men  is  attested  by  the  following: 

Killed  at  Antietam 43 

Fair  Oaks 31 

Glendale 6 

"         Fredericksburg 6 

"         Seneca  Mills  .  .  ". 3 

MalvernHill 2 

White  House i 

Tyler  House i 

Washington,  accidentally i 

Missing  at  Malvern  Hill 2 

Died  of  disease 65 

Discharged  for  disabilities,  chiefly  wounds 194 

cause  and  date  not  stated 30 

Officers  resigned,  staff 6 

company 15 

Dismissed,  officers 2 

enlisted  men 2 

Discharged  on  habeas  corpus 2 

as  a  minor i 

Transferred  to  other  branches  of  service 48 

Deserted,  captured  and  otherwise  unaccounted  for 42 

Absent  sick  at  muster  out 9 

Mustered  out,  June  30,1 863 .  staff  officers 12 

Mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  company  officers 30 

Mustered  out,  June  30,  1863,  enlisted  men 454 

Total 1008- 

All  men  who  did  not  go  south  with  us  July  3,  1861,  and  there  were  a  great- 
many  such,  have  been  omitted  from  the  above  count. 


THE    ANTIETAM    MONUMENT 
Erected  on  the  Extreme  Right  of  our  Most  Advanced  Position. 


program  of  Exercises 
ot  tbc  abtrtE*jfourtb  "Regiment  /Monument 

On  Antietam   Battle-field,   September   17,    IQOZ 


1.  BUSINESS  MEETING  AT  THE   DUNKARD  CHURCH, 

2.  THE  ASSEMBLY — n   O'CLOCK,  AT  MONUMENT,       ....         Bugle 

3.  DEDICATORY   PRAYER,      .         .      CAPT.   IRVING   D.  CLARK,  GLOVERSVILLE 

4.  INTRODUCTORY,  WITH  HISTORY  OF  MONUMENT  ENTERPRISE, 

NATHAN  EASTERBROOK,  JR.,   NEW   HAVEN,  CONN., 
CHAIRMAN  OF  MONUMENT  COMMITTEE. 

5.  UNVEILING,  ACCOMPANIED  WITH  Music  BY  THE  BAND,        . 

JAMES  A.   SUITER,  JR.,   HERKIMER. 

6.  CALLING  THE  ROLL  OF  HONOR — OUR  HEROIC  DEAD,  . 

LIEUTENANT  L.   N.   CHAPIN,   NEW  YORK, 
SECRETARY  MONUMENT  COMMITTEE. 

7.  Music, Band 

8.  ORATION HON.  J.   D.  HENDERSON,  HERKIMER 

^.     ADDRESS, MRS.   DONALD  MCLEAN,  NEW  YORK 

10.     IMPROMPTU  ADDRESSES — FIELD  STAFF,  AND  COMPANY  REPRESENTATIVES, 
MAJOR  WELLS  SPONABLE,  NEW  YORK, 

TREASURER  MONUMENT  COMMITTEE. 
CAPT.   IRVING  D.  CLARK,  GLOVERSVILLE, 
CAPT.   HENRY  W.   SANFORD,  WASHINGTON, 
COMRADE   PHILO  H.   BELL,  CROWN   POINT. 

u.     Music, Band 

12.  FORMAL  TRANSFER  SITE  AND  MONUMENT  TO  UNITED  STATES,     . 

QUARTERMASTER  NATHAN  EASTERBROOK,  JR., 
CHAIRMAN  MONUMENT  COMMITTEE. 

13.  ACCEPTANCE  OF  SAME, 

GEN.  E.  A.  CARMAN,  OF  WASHINGTON, 
REPRESENTING  THE  SECRETARY  OF  WAR,  UNITED  STATES. 

14.  SINGING — "AMERICA," Assemblage 

15.  BENEDICTION,       ....       REV.   B.   R.   CARNAHAN,   KEEDYSVILLE 

16.  LIGHTS  OUT— (TAPS),  Bugle 


THE    DEDICATION 

THE  dedication  of  our  monument  on  the  old  battlefield  of  An- 
tietam  brought  to  a  close  a  labor  that  had  extended  over  a 
period  of  seven  years ; — a  labor  whose  magnitude  no  one,  at 
the  outset,  could  foresee ;  or,  if  he  could  have  foreseen,  would  never 
have  had  the  hardihood  to  propose.  There  was  the  labor,  the  in 
finite  labor,  of  finding  out  where  the  old  comrades  were,  who, 
since  they  broke  ranks,  for  the  last  time,  forty  years  before,  had 
scattered  over  the  face  of  the  earth,  or  were  buried  beneath  its 
surface.  It  was  necessary  to  find  the  living,  that  their  hearty  co 
operation  might  be  secured ;  and  necessary  to  find  the  dead,  that 
their  names  might  properly  be  recorded,  and  their  memories  appro 
priately  honored.  There  was  the  task  of  raising  several  thousand 
dollars,  from  what  sources,  or  by  what  means,  few  had  any  adequate 
conception.  There  was  the  task  of  journeying  to  Herkimer  to  seek  aid 
and  comfort  from  the  Board  of  Supervisors;  the  task  of  journeying  to 
Albany,  to  seek  similar  solace  from  a  legislature,  some  of  whose  mem 
bers  had  always  to  ask  the  question  of  political  expediency,  and  what 
was  to  be  gained  by  it.  And  when,  at  last,  after  years  of  delay,  the 
means  had  been  provided,  there  was  the  task  of  journeying  to  Antietam, 
to  dicker  for  a  site ;  the  task  of  selecting  a  design  from  among  many, 
that  would  fully  satisfy  the  artistic  sense,  and  fully  embody  the  sacred 
memorial  idea  which  we  were  seeking  to  express  and  perpetuate.  And 
when  the  monument  had  been  provided  with  its  proper  literature,  which, 
in  enduring  bronze,  should  tell  its  story  to  all  coming  time ;  when  the 
monument,  itself,  had  been  fully  completed,  and  fully  erected  on  the 
chosen  site,  there  still  remained  the  task  of  providing  suitable  dedi 
catory  exercises,  and  for  the  transportation  of  the  comrades,  in  com 
fort  and  security,  over  the  long  journey  that  was  necessary  from 
their  far  distant  homes,  to  the  ancient  battle  ground.  And  even 
when  all  this  had  been  accomplished,  the  success  of  the  whole  enter 
prise — the  dedicatory  part — was  jeopardized  by  the  announcement  of 
two  other  excursions  of  civil  war  veterans  to  nearby  destinations ;  the 
reunion  of  the  Society  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  at  Gettysburg,  two 
days  after  our  dedication,  and  the  Annual  Encampment  of  the  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic,  at  Washington,  two  weeks  later.  Still,  always 
undaunted,  the  committee  pressed  forward,  to  final  victory,  and  the  com 
pletion  of  its  labors,  to  the  absolute  satisfaction  of  everybody  interested. 
But  in  the  laborious  process,  thousands  of  miles  had  been  traveled ; 
thousands  of  dollars  had  been  honestly  raised,  and  every  cent  of  the 
amount  honestly  spent ;  thousands  of  letters  had  been  written ;  thou 
sands  of  worries  had  been  lived  through  ;  thousands  of  hard  words 
stifled  before  they  were  uttered,  all  for  the  sake  of  the  pure  and  holy 
purpose  that  lay  at  the  bottom  of  all  our  labors.  But  when,  at  last,  the 
last  thing  had  been  done,  and  the  last  word  had  been  said,  and  we  stood 


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HISTORY 


THE   THIRTY-FOURTH    REGIMENT 


under  the  beautiful  blue  sky  of  a  perfect  autumn  day,  listening-  to  the 
fall  of  the  benediction,  from  the  lips  of  the  holy  man,  with  the  old 
familiar  voices  calling  to  us,  out  of  the  unseen,  and  the  old  familiar 
hands  reaching  down,  out  of  the  infinite  spaces,  to  clasp  our  own,  then, 
indeed,  we  could  feel  paid  and  repaid,  a  thousand  times  over,  for  all 
that  we  had  done,  and  all  that  we  had  wanted  to  do,  and  tried  so 
ineffectually  to  do.  ''The  long  day's  work  was  ended." 

On  the  morning  of  September'  16,  1902,  after  all  our  groundless 
fears  as  to  the  success  of  the  excursion,  a  goodly  number  of  comrades 
and  friends,  from  points  all  along  the  Mohawk  Valley,  boarded  the  east 
bound  train  of  the  West  Shore  Railroad,  with  through  tickets  for  the 
dedication.  At  various  points  along-  the  valley,  other  comrades  and 
friends  boarded  the  train.  By  evening  of  the  same  day,  it  had  reached 
New  York,  where  other  comrades  caught  on ;  and  during  the  night  that 
followed,  the  train  of  the  Baltimore  and  Ohio,  by  a  none  too  comfortable 
journey,  was  side-tracked  at  Harper's  Ferry,  where  it  waited  for  the 
morning.  This  history  records  how  some  of  these  same  people,  by  this 
self -same  railroad,  had  arrived  at  this  self -same  place,  on  a  morning, 
forty  years  before,  to  find  the  granite  doorway  of  the  Shenandoah 
locked  and  barred  against  their  further  progress  southward;  and  how 


VILLAGE    OF    SHARPSBURG,   MD. 1903 


FHE  DEDICATION 


JAMES    X.    GREENE 


thev  had  then  labored  to  unbar  the  door, 
and    reopen   the    great    railroad   to   the 
commerce  of  the  world.     The  morning 
of  September  17  was  passed  in 
revisiting    the    scenes    of    their 
former     labors.      Early    in    the 
forenoon  of  that  day,  the 
train    bearing    the    com- 
rades,  who  now  fully  real- 
ized  that  they  were  again 
u      amid     hills     and     valleys 
.IkS  of     the     long    ago,     and 
w  hose     memories 
were  thronging  with 
reached    the     little 
long-vanished  scenes, 
town  of  Keedysville, 
Md.     On  the 
towered 
South 


157 


Mountain 
range,     down 
through 
w  h  i  c  h     the 
regiment   had 
defiled,  at 
Turner's 
Gap,   on   that 
morning  after 
the      bloody 
battle    of     September 
14,      1862.      To     the 
south      was      plainly 
seen    the   break    of 
Crampton's        Pass, 
with     its     stony     re 
minders  of  the  hosts 
that      had       once 
swarmed    through  it. 


AND   JESSE    R.    FORT,    OF    COMMITTEE. 


158  HISTORY   OF   THE   THIRTY-FOURTH   REGIMENT 

Here  was  the  great  spring  where  the  men  had  filled  their  canteens; 
and  this,  was  the  same  Boonsboro  road  they  had  once  traveled.  To 
the  westward  flowed  Antietam  Creek,  which  they  had  forded  on  a 
distant  morning,  when  every  man's  heart  was  in  his  throat ;  and  further 
on  the  heights  and  plains,  from  which  on  that  same  morning,  had 
thundered  a  thousand  guns,  dealing  out  death  and  destruction  with  a 
lavish  hand. 

Here  the  party  were  met  by  the  teams,  which  were  to  bear  them  to 
the  old  battlefield,  by  substantially  the  same  route  they  had  taken  just 
forty  years  before.  Arriving  at  the  same  little  old  Dunkard  Church, 
which  did  not  seem  to  have  changed  much  in  all  the  long  interval,  the 
veterans  looked  around  them  on  scenes  vastly  different  from  those 
with  which  they  had  once  been  familiar.  Then  all  this  vast  tract  was 
covered  with  dead  men,  and  dead  horses,  and  all  the  dreadful  detritus 
of  a  great  battle ;  while  the  air  was  rank  with  villainous  odors.  Now 
there  were  "orchard  lawns,  and  bowery  hollows,  crowned  with  summer 
sea."  The  faces  of  many  of  the  comrades  were  bathed  in  tears,  as  it  all 
came  back. 

Soon  we  began  to  meet  other  comrades,  who  had  come  by  one  route 
and  another,  for  a  final  roll-call  at  the  monument.  The  little  church 
was  thrown  open  to  visitors,  and  every  inch  of  the  old  familiar  ground 
was  carefully  surveyed.  Then  there  was  a  business  meeting,  at  which 
every  man's  heart  was  full,  and  everybody  wanted  to  thank  everybody 
who  had  had  the  least  part  in  bringing  about  the  enterprise,  and  this 
dearest  and  sweetest  of  all  the  reunions,  a  reunion  which  could  never, 
by  any  possibility,  be  repeated.  The  following  is  the  resolution,  offered 
by  Captain  Irving  D.  Clark,  of  Company  B,  which  he  has  several  times 
since  written  us  to  amplify,  fearing  it  didn't  thank  anybody  half 
enough : 

"We  wish,  first  of  all,  to  thank  our  Monument  Committee,  Chairman, 
Quartermaster  Nathan  Easterbrook,  Jr.,  Treasurer,  Major  Wells  Sponable; 
Secretary,  Lieutenant  Louis  N.  Chapin;  also  pur  Regimental  Association  Secre 
taries,  Secretary  Jesse  R.  Fort;  Corresponding  Secretary,  James  N.  Greene; 
for  their  self  denial,  and  extraordinary  efforts,  and  unremitting  labors,  for 
the  success  of  our  noble  enterprise;  and  we  wish  the  veterans,  and  their  child 
ren,  and  children's  children,  to  know  that  these  comrades  did  their  duty  well, 
and  labored  not  in  vain." 

After  the  business  meeting,  there  was  an  adjournment  to  the  monu 
ment,  on  Confederate  Avenue,  near  by,  and  the  old  veterans,  led  by  the 
band,  found  that  they  had  not  forgotten  how  to  keep  step,  touching 
elbows,  and  guiding  right. 

The  following  is  the  program  that  was  carried  out  at  the  monu 
ment,  where  a  large  crowd  of  people  from  the  country  round,  and  even 
from  distant  towns,  were  interested  spectators,  and  listeners.  The  un 
veiling  proper  of  the  beautiful  monument,  was  performed  by  Mr.  James 
A.  Suiter,  Jr.,  son  of  the  veteran  Colonel,  who,  though  still  hale,  at  86, 
wisely  thought  it  not  prudent  to  hazard  the  long  journey.  It  had  been 
announced  that  Captain  Emerson  S.  Northup,  of  Company  K,  would  be 


THE  DEDICATION  159 

present,  to  make  the  dedicatory  prayer;  but  the  Captain  lives  in  far 
away  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  and  found  it  not  possible  to  be  present.  Ac 
cordingly  his  place  was  taken  by  Captain  Clark.  It  was  also  hoped 
that  Captain  Northup's  daughter  would  be  present,  to  sing  a  solo ;  but 
she,  also,  was  compelled  to  be  absent.  But  Captain  Xorthup  sent  a 
message,  which  was  read  by  the-  Secretary,  Lieutenant  Chapin,  who 
also  read  a  message,  full  of  noble  words,  from  the  aged  Colonel,  whom 
everybody  missed.  This  sentiment  of  regret  was  embodied  in  a  reso 
lution,  which  was  offered  by  Mrs.  Donald  McLean,  one  of  the  speakers. 
All  the  features  of  the  program,  the  oration,  by  Hon.  J.  D.  Henderson, 
the  paper  read  by  the  President,  giving  the  history  of  the  monument  en 
terprise,  and  transferring  the  title  of  lot  and  monument  to  the  United 
States  Government,  which  was  so  worthily  responded  to  by  General  E. 
A.  Carman,  on  behalf  of  the  Government,  the  address  by  Mrs.  McLean, 
and  all  the  voluntary  addresses ;  the  reading  of  the  Roll  of  Honor,  by 
Secretary  Chapin,  which  gave  the  names  of  all  the  comrades  who  died 
or  were  killed  during  the  whole  period  of  the  regiment's  service ;  in 
short,  everything  said  and  done,  at  the  unveiling,  was  so  worthy,  and 
in  such  good  spirit,  that  there  was  nothing  left  to  regret. 

After  the  exercises  were  finished,  and  the  photographs  taken,  the 
comrades  and  their  friends  were  taken  to  the  little  village  of  Sharps- 
burg,  only  a  mile  or  so  away,  where  a  most  bountiful  dinner  was  spread. 
The  afternoon  was  spent  in  riding  over  the  old  battlefield.  Every  cor 
ner  was  explored,  and  many  relics  were  gathered.  Toward  night  the 
people  all  found  their  way,  by  one  road  or  another,  back  to  Keedys- 
ville,  where  they  took  train  for  Washington.  From  this  point  they 
scattered,  and  excursioned  in  all  directions.  Many  have  written  since 
that  the  week  of  the  dedication  was  the  happiest,  the  sweetest,  and  the 
most  sacred,  of  all  their  lives. 


CHAIRMAN  EASTERBROOK'S  INTRODUCTION 

Comrades,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen: — 

We  are  assembled  here  this  beautiful  autumn  day,  made  more 
charming  by  the  tints  imparted  to  the  foliage  in  this  Eden  of  entranc 
ing  landscape. 

These  tints  indicate  to  the  husbandman  that  harvest  time  is  here, 
and  that  it  is  time  to  gather  in  the  fruits  of  his  labors. 

Time  has  touched  you  with  the  frost  of  age ;  and  you  are  ad 
monished  that  the  seed  of  death  sowed  here  forty  years  ago  to-day  is 
ready  for  the  reaper,  and  that  your  harvest  time  is  here,  and  that 
account  shall  be  taken  of  the  fruits  of  your  work.  We  little  realized 
what  our  harvest  would  be  when  that  seed  was  sowed  here  in  blood  and 
sweat.  We  did  not  know  that  on  the  result  of  this  battle  depended  the 
proclamation  that  shattered  the  shackles  that  bound  five  million  in  slav 
ery,  and  we  are  here  to  rejoice  that  we  were  instruments  in  determin 
ing  the  event  that  gave  liberty  to  every  bonded  human  being  in  our 


THE  DEDICATION  161 

country.  We  did  not  then  consider  the  rapid  rush  of  the  stream  ot 
blessings  following  the  restoration  of  the  Union,  a  reunited  people,  a 
country  prosperous  beyond  the  dreams  of  the  enthusiast;  we  made  no 
estimate  of  the  grandeur  to  which  our  country  should  attain  and  its 
power  in  shaping  and  determining  in  a  large  measure  the  happiness  and 
the  well  being  of  the  whole  human  race ;  but,  my  comrades,  all  these  are 
in  large  measure  closely  related  to  what  we  may  justly  claim  as  part 
of  the  harvest  from  the  seed  of  your  sowing,  in  your  capacity  of  ear 
nest,  honest,  effective  citizen  soldiers. 

Our  heroic  comrades,  whose  life  blood  was  shed  on  this  and  other 
fields,  have  left  us  a  legacy  of  imperishable  honor. 

We  are  here  to  dedicate  this  beautiful  and  enduring  monument 
in  honor  of  them.  ''They  risked  all,  and  lost  all,  and  what  they  lost  we 
gained."  As  a  visible  memorial,  prompted  by  high  appreciation  of 
their  devotion  to  country,  for  which  they  gave  up  their  lives,  surviving 
comrades,  appreciative  friends,  and  a  grateful  people,  have  erected  this 
monument,  and  celebrate  the  4Oth  anniversary  of  their  sacrifice. 

We  cordially  welcome  the  friends  who  honor  the  occasion  with 
their  presence.  We  especially  welcome  distinguished  ladies  and  gen 
tlemen,  friends,  who  in  eloquent  words  will  address  you.  We  welcome 
the  representative  of  the  United  States  to  whose  care  and  custody  our 
monument  will  be  committed,  and  under  whose  fostering  care  it  will 
stand  as  a  sentinel  for  a  thousand  years,  guarding  the  sleeping  patriots 
beneath  its  shadow.  In  the  name  of  the  Veteran  Association  of  the 
Thirty-fourth  Regiment,  I  welcome  you  all. 

HISTORY  MONUMENT  ENTERPRISE 

The  project  for  the  erection  of  a  Monument  in  honor  of  the  Thirty- 
fourth  Regiment  on  the  battlefield  of  Antietam,  had  its  inception  at 
the  business  meeting  of  the  reunion  of  the  Association,  at  Little  Falls, 
September  the  I7th.  1895.  The  following  resolution  was  introduced, 
and  received  the  unanimous  approval  of  the  Association : 

Resolved,  First,  That  a  committee  of  three  members  of  this  association 
be  appointed  by  the  colonel  to  collect  information  and  other  data,  and  to 
make  arrangements  for  the  erection  of  a  monument  on  the  battlefield  of 
Antietam. 

Resolved,  Second,  That  the  committee  so  appointed  shall  have  power 
to  add  to  their  number,  in  order  to  accomplish  the  erection  of  said  monument. 

In  pursuance  of  the  above  resolution,  Nathan  Easterbrook,  Jr.,  \Vells 
Sponable,  and  Louis  N.  Chapin  were  appointed  by  Colonel  James  A.  Suiter, 
President,  as  the  committee,  and  the  committee  so  appointed  by  Colonel 
Suiter  shall  be,  and  they  hereby  are,  empowered,  to  do  all  things,  and  to  per 
form  all  acts,  either  by  themselves  or  in  conjunction  with  the  persons  they 
may  add  to  their  numbers,  for  the  purpose  of  the  erection  and  dedication  of 
said  monument  on  the  Battlefield  of  Antietam. 

The  committee  immediately  took  active  and  vigorous  steps  toward 
the  forming  of  a  fund  as  a  nucleus  for  more  extended  operations.  It 
seemed  necessary  to  first  secure  a  site  and  dedicate  the  same  by  proper 


162  HISTORY   OF   THE   THIRTY-FOURTH    REGIMENT 

dedicatory  exercises,  before  introducing  a  bill  for  an  appropriation  by 
the  Legislature.  In  order  to  accomplish  this  an  appeal  was  made  to  the 
Board  of  Supervisors  at  their  session  in  December,  1895.  The  grounds 
for  our  petition  set  forth  so  forcibly  and  so  briefly  some  of  the  consid 
erations  that  prompted  us  to  appeal  directly  to  the  representative  local 
legislature  of  the  County,  that  I  doubt  not  that  it  will  be  of  interest  to 
you,  and  I  therefore  read  : 

The  Honorable  The  Board  of  Supervisors  of  Herkimer  County,  N.  Y.: 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Veteran  Association  of  the  Survivors  of  the  Thirty- 
fourth  Regiment  Volunteer  Infantry,  State  of  New  York,  held  in  the  City  of 
Little  Falls,  Herkimer  County,  September  17,  1895,  the  undersigned,  Nathan 
Easterbrook,  Jr.  of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  Wells  Sponable,  of  Morris  Heights, 
New  York  City,  Louis  N.  Chapin,  of  30  Rose  Street,  New  York  City,  were 
appointed  a  Committee  of  said  Association,  to  procure  the  erection  of  a  monu 
ment  on  the  battlefield  of  Antietam,  Maryland,  in  honor  of  the  men  of  the  said 
Thirty-fourth  Regiment  who  lost  their  lives  on  that  battlefield,  while  performing 
the  highest  duty  of  American  citizenship.  The  attack  on  Fort  Sumter,  April 
1 2th,  1 86 1,  was  a  sufficient  incentive  to  insure  their  prompt  response  to  march 
to  the  front  in  support  of  the  Union.  That  they  conscientiously,  intelligently 
and  effectively  performed  their  duty,  the  records  of  many  battles  bear  witness, 
and  the  graves  of  many  soldiers  of  the  Thirty-fourth  Regiment,  silently  pro 
claim.  They  honored  the  county,  state  and  nation  by  unfaltering  patriotism 
at  a  most  critical  period,  and  their  example  stimulated  others  to  do  likewise. 
Distinctly  representing  Herkimer  County  as  no  other  organization  did,  at  all 
times  commanded  by  a  citizen  of  the  county,  its  field  officers  exclusively 
citizens  of  the  county,  during  its  entire  service,  its  staff  and  line,  rank  and  file 
so  largely  composed  of  citizens  of  the  county,  seem  to  give  it  a  claim  to  your 
consideration  that  no  contemporary  organization  can  have.  In  considering  the 
facts  recited,  we  feel  that  it  is  fitting  and  appropriate,  and  that  we  may  with 
great  reliance  ask  you,  and  through  you,  the  people  of  the  county,  to  take 
the  initiative  in  the  erection  of  a  monument  for  the  purpose  indicated,  which,  at 
the  same  time  will  perpetuate  the  patriotic  zeal  of  Herkimer  County,  in  upholding 
the  Union.  And  we  desire  most  respectfully  to  assure  you  that  the  surviving 
members  of  the  Thirty-fourth  Regiment,  will  deeply  feel  the  honor  of  such 
recognition  as  may  result  from  your  compliance  with  our  request.  We  there 
fore  respectfully  ask,  that  you  appropriate,  and  pay  over  to  the  committee 
heretofore  named,  in  behalf  of  the  Veteran  Association  of  the  survivors  of  the 
Thirty-fourth  Regiment  Volunteer  Infantry,  the  sum  of  twenty-five  hundred 
dollars,  for  the  following  purposes,  viz. : 

i  st.  The  purchase  of  a  suitable  plot  of  ground  on  which  to  erect  a  monu 
ment,  at  Antietam. 

2nd.     For  clearing,   leveling  and   excavating. 

3rd.     The  building  of  foundations  for  walls   (inclosures) . 

4th.      For  building  inclosing  walls  and  gate  posts. 

5th.     For  building  foundations  for  steps. 

6th.      Proper  dedication. 

yth.  For  such  other  legitimate  expenditures  as  may  be  deemed  necessary 
by  said  committee. 

Our  petition  failed.  The  Supervisors  made  no  response,  and  they 
appropriated  no  money.  In  the  meantime  your  committee  were  endeav 
oring  to  form  sub-committees  of  influential  citizens  and  friends  in  the 
towns  of  the  county.  All  these  efforts  proved  fruitless.  We  next  con 
sidered  and  laboriously  and  lengthily  discussed,  through  the  medium 
of  letters,  a  plan  for  raising  funds  by  popular  subscription,  and  after 
months  of  futile  effort  we  had  to  abandon  it. 


TIIK  DEDICATION  163 

We  formulated  a  bill,  with  the  aid  of  our  loyal  and  generous  friend, 
the  late  distinguished  Judge  George  A.  Hardin,  of  Little  Falls,  and 
handed  our  bill  to  Senator  Feeter  (an  honored  honorary  member  of 
our  Association ),  who  gave  it  his  unqualified  approval,  and  his  earnest, 
active  advocacy  and  support.  Senator  Feeter  had  it  promptly  referred 
to  the  Finance  Committee  of  the  Senate,  and  arranged  a  hearing  by  the 
Finance  Committee  at  the  earliest  practicable  day.  Your  committee 
went  to  Albany,  and  remained  January  27,  28,  29  and  3Oth,  1901,  and 
worked  in  conjunction  with  Senator  Feeter  in  personal  solicitation  of 
Senators,  members  of  the  Finance  Committee  and  with  other  Senators, 
not  members  of  the  Finance  Committee.  Our  friends  Hon.  A.  M. 
Mills,  Hon.  Timothy  Dasey,  and  Postmaster  Ransom,  of  Little  Falls, 
came  to  Albany,  to  lend  their  influence  and  voices  in  our  favor.  L'nfor- 
tunately  the  Finance  Committee  deferred  the  hearing  on  our  bill  to 
such  a  late  hour,  that  Messrs.  Mills,  Dasey  and  Ransom  could  not 
remain  to  be  heard,  as  other  important  engagements  at  distant  points 
demanded  their  presence,  and  we  were  thus  deprived  of  their  wise  coun 
sel  and  valuable  assistance.  Our  bill  asked  an  appropriation  of 
$5,000.00.  The  Finance  Committee,  after  deliberate  consideration, 
reported  the  bill  to  the  Senate  with  the  recommendation  that  an  appro 
priation  of  $2,500.00  be  made.  The  cutting  of  our  request  in  two  was 
a  sore  disappointment.  To  erect  a  $5,000  monument  with  $2,500  was 
a  problem  with  which  we  w^ere  not  familiar. 

In  the  meantime  the  Board  of  Supervisors,  at  the  solicitation  of  a 
loyal  and  zealous  member  of  our  association,  backed  by  influential  citi 
zens,  had  appropriated  $500.00  to  assist  in  the  erection  of  our  monu 
ment.*  It  is  with  a  sense  of  grateful  pride  that  we  refer  to  this  act  on 
the  part  of  the  Supervisors.  We  felt  that  it  was  in  some  degree  a 
recognition  of  the  appeal  made  to  the  Board  in  December,  1895.  We 
felt  encouraged  to  make  still  further  efforts.  Our  bill  appropriating 
$2,500,  passed  both  the  Senate  and  Assembly  and  became  a  law  May 
3rd,  1901,  by  the  approval  of  Gov.  Odell. 

To  accomplish  the  purpose  your  committee  had  started  out  to  ac 
complish,  more  funds  were  needed  :  we  therefore  determined  to  intro 
duce  a  bill  at  the  session  of  the  Legislature  of  1901-1902,  for  an  addi 
tional  appropriation.  We  did  so  with  the  aid  and  effort  of  Senator 
Feeter,  but  the  additional  appropriation  was  not  granted.  But  our 
loyal  generous  friends  came  to  the  rescue  and  supplied  us  with  addi 
tional  money,  to  purchase  a  site,  and  to  erect  this  noble  tribute  to  the 
men  who  laid  down  their  lives  here,  and  to  honor  the  living  members  of 
the  Thirty-fourth  Regiment. 

*The  following  is  the  resolution  passed  by  the  Board  of  Supsrvisors  of  Herkimer  Count- 
inursday,  Dec.  13,  IQOO: 

Resolved,  That  the  sum  of  five  hundred  dollars  ($500.00)  is  hereby  appropriated  to  the 
veteran  Association  of  the  Tmrty-fourth  Regiment  Volunteer  Infantry,  State  of  Xe\v  York  towards 
a  fund  for  the  erection  of  a  monument  on  the  field  of  Antietam  in  the  State  of  Maryland  'to  com 
memorate  the  valor  and  participation  of  the  Thirty-fourth  Regiment,  X  Y  S  "Volunteers  in 
the  memorable  battle  of  September,  1862.  That  the  said  amount  be  placed  in  the  budget  and 
an  order  therefor  drawn  in  favor  of  said  Veteran  Association,  to  be  paid  over  at  such  time  as  in 
the  judgment  and  discretion  of  the  Cnairman  of  this  Board  shall  seem  proper. 


164  HISTORY   OF   THE   THIRTY-FOURTH    REGIMENT 

You  are  familiar  with  the  literature  emanating  from  our  committee, 
and  with  the  work  they  have  done ;  it  is  therefore  unnecessary  to  go 
into  the  detail  of  the  same.  I  wish  to  say,  however,  that  with  the  dili 
gent,  unfailing  effort  and  assistance,  of  our  Comrades  Jesse  R.  Fort, 
and  James  N.  Greene,  your  committee  have  spent  years  of  unremitting 
effort,  to  accomplish  the  duty  with  which  they  were  charged,  and  they 
are  now  prepared  to  present  your  Monument  to  the  United  States, 
whose  special  representative,  General  Carman,  is  here,  by  direction  of 
the  Secretary  of  War,  to  accept  it. 

After  careful  investigation  and  consideration  of  plans,  specifica 
tions  and  prices  of  different  firms  of  monument  builders,  the  contract 
was  awarded  to  Stephen  Maslen,  of  Hartford,  Conn.,  who  was  the 
lowest  bidder. 

The  cost,  including  site,  foundation,  grading,  lawyers'  services  per 
fecting  deed,  etc.,  expense  of  committee  in  coming  here  to  select  site, 
and  arrange  for  this  dedication,  etc.,  is  about  $3,000.00.  In  addition, 
the  enterprise  has  involved  many  other  necessary  and  heavy  expenses. 

The  dimensions  of  the  parts,  and  of  the  complete  monument,  are 
as  follows,  viz. : 

Base 10.      xio.      xi. 4 

Second  Base    7.8x7.8x1.2 

Plinth 6  .4   x   6  .4   X2  .  10 

Section 4-7   x  4  . 7   xi  . oo 

Lower  Die 4  -      x  4  .      x;  .  9 

Cap 4.9x4.9x1.8 

Upper  Die 3.2x3.2x2.6 

Cap   3  .  i ox   3  .  10x2    2 

Height  from  foundation  to  apex,  20  feet,  five  inches.  The  monu 
ment  is  of  the  best  Ouincy  granite.  The  plot  of  ground  on  which  the 
monument  is  erected  was  bought  of  George  F.  Poffenberger  and  wife, 
arid,  by  the  direction  of  your  committee,  was  deeded  by  them  to  the 
United  States.  It  is  60x60  feet  in  extent  and  cost  $160,000. 


ORATION  OF  HON.  JOHN  D.  HENDERSON 

Mr.  Chairman,  Comrades,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen: — 

''  Taller  and  richer  grows  the  corn  where  fell  Antietam's  dead." 

We  have  come  here  to-day  to  dedicate  a  monument.  Ever  since 
man  came  upon  the  earth,  he  has  been  erecting  and  dedicating  monu 
ments. 

It  is  fairly  well  established,  that  those  large,  unshaped,  or  partly 
shaped  stones,  now  known  as  Megalithic  monuments,  were  set  up  in 
prehistoric  times  as  memorials  of  mighty  warriors,  or  of  important 
events. 

Such  stones  are  found  in  all  the  countries  of  Northern,  and  West 
ern  Europe,  in  India,  in  Africa,  and  in  South  America.  Mexico  and 
Central  America  abounded  in  pyramids,  and  monuments,  erected  to 


THE  DEDICATION  165 

the  memory  of  their  great  men,  and  to  their  gods,  and  it  may  be  also, 
that  the  curious  mounds  of  earth,  scattered  over  our  own  country  are 
monuments,  and  were  built  for  a  like  purpose. 

But  coming  down  to  the  times  of  authentic  history ;  the  Patriarch 
Jacob  set  up  a  pillar  at  Bethel  and  another  at  Galeed.  The  story  of 
the  erection  of  a  monument  is  not  an  unusual  thing  in  the  Hebrew 
record.  True,  it  more  often  took  the  form  of  an  altar,  as  we  might 
expect  among  a  people  whose  government  was  a  Theocracy,  but  pillars, 
and  stones,  and  monuments,  were  not  uncommon.  The  pyramids,  the 
Sphynx,  and  hundreds  of  monoliths  testify  to  the  glories  of  ancient 
Egypt,  and  the  mighty  events  which  have  taken  place  on  the  shores  of 
the  Mediterranean,  are  commemorated  by  monuments. 

The  Greeks  and  the  Romans  built  a  great  many  of  them.  Some 
have  decayed,  crumbled  and  disappeared,  but  others  remain,  and  are 
still  admired  for  their  finish  and  their  beauty.  The  Campaigns  of  the 
Emperor  Trajan  are  sculptured  in  long  panoramic  display,  on  the  spiral 
band  which  crowns  his  shaft,  and  this  idea  was  copied  without  improve 
ment  on  the  design,  upon  the  column  of  Antonine  erected  in  the  second 
century  of  our  era,  and  later  upon  the  splendid  monuments  of  Napoleon. 
The  accidental  discovery  of  the  Rosetta  stone  furnished  a  key  to  the 
inscriptions  on  the  Tombs,  and  Obelisks  of  Egypt,  and  we  are  able  to 
decipher  those  curious  characters,  and  to  read  some  of  the  stories  writ 
ten  there.  From  them  we  have  learned  much  about  the  men  of  past 
ages  who  struggled,  as  we  do  now,  for  life,  for  glory,  for  supremacy 
ever  fellow  men. 

In  our  times,  the  building  of  monuments  has  often  taken  the 
form  of  hospitals,  libraries,  colleges,  and  asylums,  erected  to  the 
memory  of  their  founders ;  men  who  have  accumulated  wealth  and 
wish  to  do  some  good  in  the  world  as  they  leave  it ;  these  foundations 
are  no  less  monuments  than  are  the  stones  in  our  cemeteries,  or  the 
memorial  windows  in  our  churches.  A  splendid  building,  an  art  col 
lection,  a  library,  a  fountain,  a  great  institution  of  learning,  a  fund 
preserved  and  devoted  to  a  particular  purpose,  which  bears  the  name 
of  its  founder,  is  a  very  useful  monument,  and  a  worthy  memorial  of 
the  giver,  but  it  is  not  desirable  that  every  memorial  should  be  of  such 
a  nature. 

Usefulness  in  itself  is  good,  but  not  essential,  or  requisite.  A 
monument  stands  as  a  witness  of  something.  It  is  the  embodiment  of 
an  idea.  Set  up  in  stone  to-day,  it  voices  our  sentiments,  and  speaks 
to  future  generations. 

The  printed  page  will  tell,  in  more  or  less  detail,  of  those  whose 
deeds  we  commemorate. 

Men,  however,  are  not  all  readers  of  books,  and  the  world  gener 
ally  is  too  busy  with  the  activities  of  the  present,  to  give  much  thought 
or  time  to  the  doings  and  stories  of  the  past,  but  as  the  child  in  the 
kindergarten  is  taught  by  the  blocks  and  objects  which  he  sees,  so  men 
are  taught  lessons  of  history,  from  sculptured  marble,  from  statues  of 
bronze,  from  shafts  which  stand  as  silent  witnesses  for  those  who  can 
no  longer  speak  for  themselves. 


THE  DEDICATION  167 

A  victory  lasts  as  long  as  the  result  can  be  seen  and  felt.  A  man 
lives  among  men,  so  long  as  he  is  not  forgotten.  But  how  long  can  a 
man  live  ?  There  have  been  men  whose  deeds  shall  keep  their  memory 
green,  and  their  names  upon  the  lips  of  their  fellow  men,  so  long  as 
the  earth  shall  last. 

To  be  known  to-day,  to-morrow,  and  forever,  is  the  mainspring 
of  ambition,  and  too  often  the  chief  incentive  for  human  effort.  But 
no  one  wishes  to  sleep  in  an  unknown  grave.  All  desire  to  be  remem 
bered.  Is  such  desire,  implanted  in  every  human  breast  an  evidence 
of  the  immortality  of  man?  It  certainly  is,  and  it  is  a  proper  and 
noble  sentiment. 

It  is  also  proper  that  we  should  pay  suitable  tribute  to  those  who 
have  gone  before,  and  perpetuate,  in  so  far  as  we  are  able,  the  memory 
of  the  worthy  dead  of  ou/  own  times. 

But,  "There  is  nothing  new  under  the  sun."  A  stone  marks  the 
place  where  a  battle  was  fought,  a  hero  buried,  a  treaty  signed,  a  life 
given  for  one's  country,  or  it  is  set  up  as  a  memorial  of  a  series  of 
events,  important  in  the  history  of  a  nation.  When  men  see  such  a 
stone,  the  event  to  which  it  testifies  is  remembered,  and  talked  about, 
as  long  as  the  stone  stands. 

We  do  nothing  new  ourselves.  Forty  years  have  passed  since 
armies  met  upon  this  field,  and  contested  for  the  mastery.  We  see  all 
around  us  memorials  of  that  day.  Others  have  been  here  before  us, 
upon  a  similar  errand,  but  we  have  come  to  erect  a  monument  to  the 
memory  of  as  brave  men,  as  ever  fell  on  any  field,  or  struggled  for  any 
cause. 

You  surviving  comrades ;  you  brothers,  sons,  neighbors,  friends, 
acquaintances,  of  these  men ;  you  who  have  heard  and  are  familiar 
with  the  story  of  the  gallant  Thirty-fourth  Regiment;  you  lovers  of 
your  country,  patriots,  spectators  on  this  occasion ;  you  all  honor  your 
selves  when  you  honor  them, 

It  took  nearly  a  hundred  years  to  decide  the  "irrepressible  con 
flict"  between  freedom  and  slavery  in  this  country.  Everything  which 
led  up  to  the  battle  of  Antietam  culminated  here.  It  was  not  alone  a 
mighty  conflict  between  two  armies  of  brave  men,  it  was  a  great  crisis, 
and  the  result  of  the  fight  upon  this  field  saved  Maryland  to  the  Union, 
and  furnished  the  opportunity,  and  occasion,  for  President  Lincoln's 
first  emancipation  proclamation.  It  was  the  adoption  of  a  new  policy. 
Thereafter  there  was  no  question  about  the  abolition  of  slavery ;  there 
would  be  no  more  compromises.  The  excuse  for  conflict  would  be 
removed,  and  removed  for  ever.  It  was  an  epoch-marking  time,  in 
the  history  of  the  world.  It  was  an  event,  the  influence  "of  which, 
shall  be  felt  during  the  entire  life  of  this  nation.  Freed  from  the  pas 
sions,  and  prejudices  of  that  hour,  we  can  look  calmly  back,  and  dis 
cuss  the  whole  matter,  without  bitterness  of  thought,  or  speech.  First. 
we  must  recognize  that  those  who  took  part  in  the  great  civil  war  were 
actuated  by  similar  motives,  and  were  terribly  in  earnest.  The  men  in 
both  armies,  were  trying  to  do  their  "duty  to'  the  state"  but  "the  state" 


168  HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-FOURTH  REGIMENT 

had  two  different  meanings.  On  one  side  it  meant  that  individual 
local  government,  whose  domestic  institutions  were  in  danger,  whose 
honor  was  at  stake,  whose  soil  had  been  invaded.  On  the  other  side 
it  meant  that  great  Union  of  States,  which  had  a  common  history,  a 
common  interest,  a  common  heritage  of  liberty,  a  common  territory 
which  could  not  be  divided,  and  a  flag  which  must  not  be  dishonored. 

The  perpetuation,  or  the  abolition  of  negro  slavery  which  fur 
nished  the  occasion  for  the  contest  was  a  mere  incident.  Wrong  in 
itself,  an  indefensible  violation  of  human  rights,  those  who  made  the 
"peculiar  institution"  the  chief  corner  stone  of  their  governmental 
structure,  were  from  the  beginning  of  the  contest,  doomed  to  destruc 
tion.  But  there  were  thousands  in  the  armies  of  the  confederacy  who 
cared  nothing  for  slavery.  They  did  care  for  the  freedom,  and  the 
sovereignty  of  their  native  State.  Misled  and  misinformed,  they 
regarded  the  men  of  the  North  as  enemies,  and  oppressors,  and  they 
could  not  see  that  a  Union  of  States  formed  upon  the  idea  that  any 
one  of  them  could  secede,  at  its  own  sweet  will,  was  a  "rope  of  sand" 
unworthy  of  respect,  unworthy  to  be  called  a  nation.  If  it  had  been 
possible  for  the  confederate  states  to  have  succeeded  they  could  not 
have  lasted  ten  years ;  even  in  their  brief  history,  there  were  several 
threatened  secessions  from  their  number.  Defeat  was  a  blessing  to 
them.  Success  would  have  been  a  misfortune.  It  would  have 
retarded  their  own  progress,  and  the  progress  of  the  world. 

The  Triumph  of  the  National  Idea,  was  perhaps  a  revolution,  but 
it  was  a  revolution  in  the  interest  of  good  government,  a  revolution 
which  tended  to  the  advancement  of  individual  liberty,  a  revolution 
which  proved  the  strength,  the  power,  and  the  permanency  of  the 
Republic,  and  which  brought  progress,  and  prosperity  to  the  whole 
people.  Things  move  fast  in  our  country.  It  took  centuries  in  Eng 
land  to  wear  away  the  animosities  engendered  by  the  wars  of  the 
Roses.  The  house  of  Stuart  had  loyal  supporters  for  more  than  a 
hundred  years  after  its  fall,  and  Ireland,  conquered,  and  subdued  by 
Cromwell,  still  refuses  to  be  pacified ;  but  here  we  see  a  loyal  and 
united  people.  The  questions  settled  by  the  war  of  '61  have  been  set 
tled  forever.  The  lines  which  divided  the  people  of  this  country  at 
that  time  can  never  divide  us  again.  A  prosperous  North,  and  a 
resurrected  South  joined  with  the  great  and  mighty  West,  present  to 
the  world  a  nation  of  unlimited  resources,  and  of  marvelous  power. 

Friend  and  foe  alike  sleep  here  in  eternal  peace,  no  contention 
disturbs  the  quiet  of  their  repose,  and  "No  sound  can  awake  them  to 
glory  again."  So  among  the  living,  who  visit  here,  hatred  has  given 
place  to  love,  enmity  to  friendship,  rancor  to  brotherly  kindness.  We 
can  come  here  and  dedicate  this  monument  to  our  friends  and  at  the 
same  time  pay  suitable  tribute  to  the  zeal,  the  spirit,  and  the  courage 
of  their  foes.  In  doing  this,  there  is  no  disparagement  of  those  who 
triumphed  in  that  conflict,  it  rather  adds  to  their  glory  to  admit  that 
they  had  foeman  worthy  of  their  steel.  Those  who  fought  here,  were 
all  Americans,  gallant  descendants  of  the  mighty  stock  from  which 


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they  sprang,  and  in  that  contest  were  working  out  the  destiny  of  the 
race. 

But  "duty  to  the  State"  means  something  for  us  to-day,  and  if  we 
would  be  worthy  successors  of  the  brave  men  of  the  Thirty-fourth 
Regiment  who  fell  upon  this  field,  we  must  have  as  noble  a  conception 
of  "our  duty  to  the  State"  as  they  had,  when  they  gave  up  their  lives 
for  their  country. 

There  is  no  duty  that  calls  for  the  immediate  sacrifice  of  human 
life.  No  duty  that  requires  the  abandonment  of  our  usual  occupa 
tions,  no  duty  that  greatly  interferes  with  our  daily  business. 

But  there  is  duty,  which  may  conflict  with  our  personal  comfort, 
duty,  which  demands  our  interest  and  attention,  duty  to  be  done  every 
day  of  our  lives,  if  we  would  be  good  citizens  of  a  free  republic. 
Vigilance  is  to-day  as  much  the  price  of  liberty  as  it  ever  was,  and  it 
is  the  vigilance  of  patriots,  uninfluenced  by  selfishness,  or  hope  of 
present  reward. 

Our  "duty  to  the  State"  consists  in  having  an  intelligent  opinion 
on  all  political  issues ;  a  knowledge"  of  the  policy  and  practice  of  the 
government ;  a  place,  and  a  standing,  in  a  political  party,  and  in  always 
making  an  honest  effort  on  all  occasions,  to  support  those  men  and 
measures  only,  which  we  believe  to  be  nearest  right.  Corrupt  prac 
tices  should  have  no  countenance  from  any  of  us.  That  man  is  not 
a  good  citizen  or  patriot,  who  would  be  influenced  himself,  or  would 
influence  others  by  corrupt  motives.  A  stream  can  rise  no  higher  than 
its  source.  You  stand  as  citizens,  at  the  fountain  head  of  all  power 
in  this  country. 

Bribery  in  one  form  or  another  is  the  greatest  danger  which 
threatens  the  Republic ;  set  your  faces  against  it.  Condemn  it  on  all 
occasions.  Support  no  men  who  favor  or  practice  it;  and  make  hon 
esty  the  chief  qualification  for  public  office. 

Flatter  not  yourselves  that  you  will  have  sufficient  virtue  to  pre 
serve  the  republic  in  perilous  times,  if  you  neglect  your  present  duty 
as  citizens. 

Do  not  think  that  your  sons  and  daughters  will  love  their  country 
or  perform  their  civic  duties  any  better  than  you  do ;  your  example 
will  be  their  model  of  conduct. 

We  shall  not  have  come  here  in  vain,  if  we  make  this  occasion  a 
noble  incentive  to  better  citizenship. 

MRS.  MCLEAN'S  ADDRESS 

We  had  fully  expected  to  be  able  to  give  the  address  delivered 
by  Mrs.  McLean';  but  the  address  was  delivered  without  manuscript, 
or  even  notes ;  and  there  was  no  stenographer  present  to  take  it  down. 
Still,  the  lady,  desiring  to  accommodate  the  many  who  wanted  to  read 
the  address,  promised  to  try  and  reproduce  it.  But  the  drafts  on  her 
time  have  been  many,  and  we  are,  therefore,  obliged,  though  very 
reluctantly,  to  proceed  without  it.  Mrs.  McLean  is  Regent  of  the  New 


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York  City  Chapter,  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution,  a  very 
busy  woman,  and  at  the  moment  of  our  writing  this  notice  is  deep 
in  a  public  function  up  at  Sherry's,  this  January  6th,  being  the  anni 
versary  of  Washington's  wedding  day.  The  Thirty-fourth  had  the 
honor  of  being  present,  though  a  little  late  for  the  ceremony,  at  the 
little  Roper's  Church,  where  the  Father  of  his  Country  and  the  beauti 
ful  Martha  Custis  were  joined  for  life;  and  it  must  be  gratifying" 
to  that  august,  first  great  patriot  of  his  time,  to  know  that  we 
not  only  honor  all  the  other  great  days  of  his  life,  but  also  the  great 
day  when  he  took  to  himself  a  lady  who,  ever  afterward,  justly  divided 
with  him  all  the  glory  which  properly  belonged  to  his  name. 

Following  these  regular  addresses,  Chairman  Easterbrook  called 
on  a  number  of  the  old  officers  present  for  addresses.  We  are  able 
to  give  a  number  of  them. 

REMARKS  OF  MAJOR  WELLS  SPONABLE 

Mr.  Chairman,  Comrades,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen : 

In  behalf  of  our  venerable  and  beloved  Colonel,  I  will  say  that 
we  are  thankful  for  the  privilege  of  meeting  on  this  famous  field,  and 
congratulating  one  another,  after  an  absence  of  forty  years  ;  or  more 
than  an  ordinary  lifetime. 

Forty  years'  work  marked  changes  in  nations,  and  especially  in 
republics.  It  will  be  remembered  by  those  who  visited  this  place  forty 
years  ago  that  they  were  more  hospitably  received  to-day  than  forty 
years  ago,  and  that  the  atmosphere  is  also  very  much  changed.  It  is 
not  so  hot  as  forty  years  ago. 

There  is  not  so  much  noise,  bustle  and  confusion,  as  forty  years 
ago.  The  people  we  meet  are  not  so  excited  as  forty  years  ago.  The 
hotel  accommodations  are  much  improved. 

The  facilities  for  getting  from  one  point  to  another  are  also  much 
improved. 

On  the  whole,  I  venture  to  say  that  to-day  will  end  in  a  much 
more  enjoyable  one  than  forty  years  ago. 

We  meet  here  to-day  for  the  purpose  of  doing  honor  to  those  of 
our  regiment  who  were  killed  on  this  spot  of  ground,  in  one  of  the 
great  battles  of  the  war  between  the  States.  We  believe  we  are  doing 
our  duty  to  the  past,  present  and  the  future,  in  erecting  a  monument  to 
our  comrades  who  \vere  killed  in  defence  of  our  country's  flag. 

"  On  Fame's  eternal  camping  ground 

Their  silent  tents  are  spread, 
And  glory  guards,  with  solemn  round, 
The  bivouac  of  the  dead." 

Greeley,  the  historian,  in  closing  his  account  of  this  battle,  says : 
"And  thus  ended  the  bloodiest  day  America  ever  saw."  General  Alex 
ander,  Chief  of  Artillery  in  Longstreet's  corps,  who  directed  the  Con 
federate  fire,  in  the  celebrated  artillery  duel  at  Gettysburg,  in  his 


172  HISTORY  OF   THE   THIRTY-FOURTH   REGIMENT 

speech  made  at  West  Point  June  Qth  last  in  speaking  of  Antietam, 
said :  "Dolorous  and  bootless  Antietam  is  conspicuous  as  the  bloodiest 
single  day  in  the  annals  of  this  continent."  So  comrades  you  see  it 
may  be  truly  said  that  the  American  people  have  been  tried  in  both 
fire  and  water,  and  found  not  wanting,  but  equal  to  every  emergency. 

Every  emergency  thus  far  has  been  successfully  met. 

In  the  beginning,  we  had  our  Washington,  who  laid  the  foundation 
of  the  republic  absolutely  on  the  granite  rocks.  Later  we  had  our  Lin 
coln.  Still  later  we  had  our  McKinley.  And  now  we  have  Colonel 
Roosevelt,  in  whom  we  have  the  utmost  confidence,  believing  him 
equal  to  any  emergency  that  may  arise.  It  will  be  remembered  that 
our  greatest  Presidents  were  veterans.  A  hint  to  the  wise  is  sufficient. 
Do  not  accept  an  uncertainty  for  a  certainty.  There  is  no  use  borrow 
ing  trouble  about  the  future.  An  American  always  turns  up  equal  to 
the  occasion. 

The  time  and  money  spent  in  building  monuments  on  the  battle 
fields  of  the  war  between  the  States,  by  either  the  Union  or  Confeder 
ate  veterans,  is  well  invested. 

There  are  no  better  teachers  for  those  who  come  after  us  than  the 
silent  monuments  on  the  battlefields,  marking  the  places  where  men 
died  for  a  principle  they  believed  right,  whether  they  wore  the  blue 
or  the  gray  uniform. 

The  monuments  erected  by  the  veterans  of  the  war  between  the 
States,  whether  north  or  south  of  the  compromise  line,  will  teach 
those  who  come  after  us  lessons  that  can  be  learned  in  no  other  way. 

History  fails  to  impress  on  the  mind  what  this  nation  experienced 
during  the' war  between  the  States  as  do  those  silent  sentinels,  con 
stantly  on  duty,  reminding  the  youth  that  is  to  conduct  the  republic  in 
the  future,  of  the  events  that  occasioned  and  occurred  in  the  civil  war. 
Therefore  I  say  to  the  veterans  of  the  blue  and  the  gray,  continue  to 
build  monuments  ;  they  virtually  cost  nothing.  In  this  country  the  peo 
ple  are  the  government,  and  the  government  is  the  people.  The  people 
who  are  the  government  build  the  monuments  and  they  have  both 
monument  and  money.  So  you  see  the  people  (the  government),  are 
just  a  monument  ahead.  We  are  thankful  to  all  who  assisted  in  the 
erection  of  that  pile  of  stone  which  will  be  a  page  in  our  nation's  his 
tory  for  all  time. 

I  hope  all  may  live  to  meet  one  year  from  to-day,  in  the  beautiful 
Vallev  of  the  Mohawk. 


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REMARKS  OF  CAPTAIN  IRVING  D.  CLARK 

Captain  Clark  of  Company  B,  was  the  next  speaker,  and  in  the 
course  of  his  remarks  related  the  following  touching  incident  concern 
ing  the  Terry  brothers.  We. might  add  that  Captain  Clark  had  a 
brother  killed  at  the  Battle  of  Antietam : 

Mr.  Chairman,  Comrades,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen: 

At  the  Pan-American  Exposition,  I  saw,  at  the  entrance  to  the 
Art  Building,  a  soldiers'  group  or  statue,  representing  a  scene  in  Cuba 
(or  the  Philippines).  A  dead  soldier  lay  upon  the  ground,  another 
stood  beside  him  looking  away  in  the  distance,  seeming  to  wonder  what 
the  folks  at  home  would  think  when  they  heard  of  his  comrade's  death. 
The  boy  soldiers  of  1861-65,  tne  same  as  now,  with  radiant  faces,  car 
ried  their  lives  lightly  in  their  hands,  thinking  only  of  the  old  flag  and 
the  future  united  country.  Only  when  they  found'  themselves  beside  a 
dead  comrade,  and  thought  of  the  loved  ones  at  home,  did  they  stop  to 
realize  what  a  soldier's  death  really  meant.  In  the  war  for  the  Union 
there  were  many  thrilling  scenes,  with  no  snap-shot  camera  to  record 
them  as  now.  Some  of  the  most  touching  situations  were  never  per 
petuated,  save  in  the  memory  of  a  few  who  were  interested  from  some 
cause — possibly  a  relative  or  a  friend.  In  the  contest  between  the 
North  and  South,  many  tragic  scenes,  were  in  the  aggregate,  but  com 
monplaces  to  the  officers  and  soldiers  of  those  two  contending  armies. 
On  Antietam  battlefield  our  lamented  McKinley  carried  water  to  the 
wounded  and  dying  soldiers  of  the  two  armies.  Who  knows  but  that 
he  put  the  cup  of  cold  water  to  my  brother's  lips  before  he  died.  It  is 
a  grand  thing  to  be  a  soldier,  and  wear  a  uniform  of  the  United  States 
Army. 

At  the  Battle  of  Fair  Oaks,  Virginia,  May  3ist,  1862,  Major 
(then  Captain)  Wells  Sponable,  of  Company  B,  was  severely  wounded, 
when  the  command  fell  upon  me,  then  a  lieutenant.  There  were  in 
our  Company,  three  brothers,  Joseph,  Victor  and  Albert  Terry.  Vic 
tor  and  Albert  were  both  wounded  in  the  leg  at  the  battle.  Amputa 
tion  was  necessary,  after  which  they  were  placed  in  separate  ambu 
lances  and  started  for  the  General  Hospital,  in  the  rear.  On  the  way 
to  the  Hospital,  both  young  men  died.  They  were  placed  in  one  ambu 
lance,  and  returned  to  the  battlefield.  On  the  next  morning,  June  1st, 
during  a  continuation  of  the  battle,  while  the  regiment  was  standing 
as  support  to  the  troops  fighting  in  our  front,  Joseph  Terry,  the  older 
brother,  was  excused  from  the  ranks  to  bury  his  two  brothers,  whose 
remains  he  had  placed  side  by  side  under  a  tree,  a  short  distance  behind 
our  line.  Setting  his  Enfield  rifle  against  a  tree,  he  began  digging 
that  grave.  When  the  battle  raged  too  near,  and  the  spent  balls  were 
falling  about  us,  he  would  put  his  spade  aside,  take  his  rifle  and 
resume  his  place  in  the  company.  When  the  roar  of  musketry  and  the 
Union  cheers  would  show  the  enemy  were  being  driven,  he  again  would 
take  up  his  spade.  When  the  battle  would  again  sway  toward  our 


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line,  he  would  return  to  the  ranks,  thus  alternating  between  the  ranks 
and  the  grave,  until  the  sad  task  was  done.  Think  you  Joseph  Terry 
did  not  also  wonder  what  the  folks  at  home  would  think  when  they 
heard  that  those  two  young  brothers  were  dead  ? 

So  many  memories  press  upon  us,  we  cannot  mention  them  here, 
but  feel  that  this  word  picture  is  worthy  a  place  beside  the  Pan- 
American  group  we  have  mentioned. 

REMARKS  OF  CAPTAIN  SANFORD 

President  of  the  Monument  Association,  Comrades,  Ladies  and  Gen 
tlemen  : 

It  is  probably  fitting  that  I,  the  only  surviving  officer  of  Co.  "E," 
of  the  Thirty-fourth  Regiment,  New  York  Volunteers,  and  the  only 
one  present  on  this  occasion  to  represent  either  of  the  Steuben  County 
Companies,  should  say  a  few  words  in  commemoration  of  their  acts 
on  this  field. 

Personally  I  have  met  with  a  great  disappointment  to-day,  in  not 
meeting  our  gallant  old  commander,  Col.  James  A.  Suiter,  whose  old 
gray  locks,  like  the  plume  of  Henry  of  Xavarre,  always  waved  where 
the  battle  waged  thickest.  The  truest  and  grandest  tribute  that  I  can 
give  to  the  memory  of  him  whom  I  have  not  seen  for  nearly  forty 
years,  is  that  he  was  a  true  friend,  an  honorable  man,  and  a  brave 
soldier. 

After  the  lapse  of  forty  years  memory  may  play  false  with  us. 
She  is  a  fickle  jade  at  best.  'But  the  principal  transactions  of  the  past 
become  indelibly  fixed  upon  the  tablets  of  memory.  That  there  was 
one  of  the  most  gigantic,  battles  of  modern  times  fought  upon  this 
field,  cannot  be  successfully  disputed. 

Speaking  for  and  of  the  company  I  had  the  honor  to  command, 
and  which  participated  here  on  that  day ;  I  will  say  that  in  all  my  ex 
perience  of  more  than  four  years  of  bloody  strife,  I  never  saw  men  look 
and  act  more  determined  to  do,  and  to  die,  if  need  be,  to  accomplish  a 
victory.  When  we  formed  line  for  the  advance  that  morning,  every 
one  strove  to  be  first  and  foremost.  A  look  of  determination  was 
stamped  upon  each  countenance.  Every  eye  was  kindled  with  the  fire 
of  battle,  and  battle  to  the  death.  With  anything  like  a  fair  or  equal 
show,  they  would  have  recorded  a  chapter  in  history  that  would  have 
broken  all  former  records,  and  set  the  pace  for  future  generations.  As 
it  was,  they  were  halted  in  the  most  exposed  position  possible,  confront 
ing  an  enemy  protected  by  a  breastwork  of  solid  earth  and  rock,  expos 
ing  only  their  heads  at  the  instant  of  firing.  At  the  same  time  our  left 
flank  was  unprotected,  and  no  Federal  soldier  interposed  any  barrier 
to  a  column  of  Confederates  who  marched  in  our  rear,  and  enfiladed  us. 

Never  can  I  efface  from  my  memory  the  dreadful  revulsion  of 
feeling  which  came  over  me,  when  I  discovered  our  position,  and 
realized  that  death,  retreat  or  capture,  was  inevitable.  It  was  a  sud 
den  change  from  the  belief  that  the  crisis  had  arrived,  and  that  victory 


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was  at  hand,  that  would  decide  the  fate  of  battle,  and  restore  the 
Union  in  honor  and  glory,  to  that  of  a  consciousness  of  defeat,  and 
another  retreat.  I  believe  that  the  hour  which  succeeded  disaster  upon 
this  line  of  battle  was  the  darkest  of  my  entire  life.  I  felt  for  a  time 
that  all  was  lost. 

As  a  tribute  to  the  men  who  fell  on  this  field,  I  can  confidently 
say  that  truer,  braver,  or  more  loyal  men  never  trod  American  soil, 
or  breathed  the  pure  air  of  heaven. 

As  an  illustration  of  the  heroism  and  spirit  which  actuated  them,  I 
will  only  take  time  to  relate  a  short  sketch  of  one  of  Co.  "E." 

Orlando  Chamberlain  who,  when  enlisted,  was  a  youth,  small  in 
stature,  and  with  cheeks  rosy  like  those  of  a  girl,  had  borne  all  of  the 
long  marches  and  privations  without  a  murmur,  was  wounded  by  a 
large  leaden  bullet,  which  passed  lengthwise  through  his  foot,  mang 
ling  the  flesh,  and  fracturing  several  bones. 

The  next  day  when  I  visited  him  in  the  hospital  I  found  that  the 
surgeons  had  decided  that  an  amputation  was  necessary.  I  said  to 
him,  "Orlando,  I  am  sorry  that  you  have  been  so  badly  wounded." 
With  a  cheerful  smile,  he  turned  his  face  up  to  me  and  said,  "No,  this 
is  nothing;  I  am  glad  they  did  not  shoot  me  in  the  head.  If  the  doc 
tors  will  let  me  alone,  I  will  be  on  duty  again  soon." 


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While  his  prediction  was  not  literally  true,  it  was  practically  so, 
for  although  he  was  never  able  to  return  to  duty  in  the  Thirty-fourth 
Regiment,  and  was  a  cripple  for  life,  he  made  a  successful  fight  against 
the  surgeons,  and  finally  got  back  to  service  in  another  regiment,  was 
in  the  charge  at  the  explosion  of  the  mine  in  front  of  Petersburg,  Va., 
and  was  there  taken  prisoner,  because  of  his  crippled  condition,  and 
being  unable  to  make  the  retreat  with  his  comrades  who  did  escape. 
But  he  saw  that  the  flag  was  rescued,  and  delivered  to  a  comrade,  who 
got  away  with  it  safely. 

This  monument,  beautiful  as  it  is,  is  but  a  trifling  tribute  to  such 
valor.  All  glory  to  the  noble  heroes  who  sacrificed  their  lives  upon 
their  country's  altar.  No  shaft  can  be  erected  too  high  to  testify 
to  the  glory  of  those  who  fell  upon  this  field.  If  moulded  from  pure 
gold,  and  if  every  letter  of  the  inscription  had  been  constructed  of  dia 
monds  and  precious  stones,  it  could  no  more  than  express  the  rever 
ence  and  honor  I  have  for  those  fallen  comrades.  It  is  very  fitting 
that  we,  the  survivors,  who  knew  their  worth,  should  erect  a  tribute 
to  their  memory.  While  it  does  not  fully  express  our  feelings,  it  is 
an  evidence  that  their  deeds,  sacrifices  and  sufferings  are  not  forgotten. 

Comrades,  there  are  very  many  other  incidents  that  I  would  call 
to  your  minds,  if  time  would  permit ;  but  I  am  aware  of  the  lateness 
of  the  hour,  and  that  most  of  you  feel  the  need  of  food  more  than  senti 
ment,  so  I  will  not  further  presume  upon  your  good  nature. 

Comrade  Philo  H.  Bell,  of  Company  H,  was  the  next  speaker 
called  on,  and  in  the  course  of  his  remarks  gave  the  following  account 
of  the  life  and  death  of  Chester  S.  Rhodes,  Color  Bearer,  of  whom  we 
speak  in  the  history  of  the  organization  of  Company  H.  In  this  con 
nection,  it  would  be  well  to  read  the  account  which  Colonel  Suiter  gives 
in  his  official  report  of  the  battle  of  Antietam,  of  Charles  B.  Barton, 
of  Company  C,  another  Color  Bearer  of  the  regiment: 

THE  STORY  OF  CHESTER  S.  RHODES 

Mr.  Chairman,  Comrades,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen: 

Chester  Rhodes  was  born  in  Crown  Point,  from  old  revolutionary 
stock.  His  father  was  Judge  Levi  Rhodes,  and  he  was  in  the  battle 
of  Plattsburg.  His  grandfather  was  a  revolutionary  soldier,  and  his 
mother's  maiden  name  was  Lois  Rogers.  She  had  two  brothers  in 
the  battle  of  Plattsburg.  Her  father  was  also  a  revolutionary  soldier. 
Chester  Rhodes  had  four  brothers,  three  of  them  served  in  the  war  of 
the  rebellion. 

When  the  ladies  of  Crown  Point  made  that  flag  they  put  it  in  the 
hands  of  Chester  Rhodes  as  the  bearer.  His  mother  stepped  up  to 
him,  threw  her  arms  around  his  neck,  and  while  the  tears  were  rolling 
down  her  cheeks,  said :  "Chester,  the  ladies  of  Crown  Point  have  put 
great  confidence  in  you  ;  they  have  placed  that  banner  in  your  hands. 
Go  to  the  front,  bear  it  aloft,  and  never  turn  from  the  enemy."  On 
the  bloody  battle-field  of  Antietam  he  obeyed  the  last  command  of  a 


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loving  mother ;  turned,  and  faced  a  whole  rebel  army,  with  these  words  : 
"I  will  run  no  farther,"  and  was  pierced  with  seven  bullets.  His 
remains  lie  in  the  National  Cemetery  at  Antietam.  The  number  of 
his  marker  is  seven  hundred  and  seventy-eight. 

The  formal  transfer  of  the  monument  and  site  to  the  United 
States,  by  Chairman  Easterbrook,  of  the  Monument  Committee,  and 
the  acceptance  of  the  same  by  General  E.  A.  Carman,  who  had  been 
designated  by  the  War  Department  for  that  duty,  then  occurred. 
General  Carman  is  a  member  of  the  Antietam  Battle-field  Board ;  has 
made  a  special  study  of  the  Antietam  battle-field,  and  is  the  author  of 
the  inscriptions  on  the  many  iron  tablets  which  everywhere  tell  to  the 
traveler  the  story  of  that  great  battle. 


CHAIRMAN    EASTERBROOK'S   REMARKS,    FORMALLY   TRANS 
FERRING    MONUMENT    AND    SITE    TO    THE    UNITED 
STATES  GOVERNMENT 

General  Carman: 

The  Veteran  Association  of  the  Thirty-fourth  Regiment  Volunteer 
Infantry,  State  of  New  York,  desire  to  donate  to  the  United  States  this 
site  and  this  monument,  in  order  that  they  may  be  assured  of  perpetual 
care. 

As  the  official  representative  of  the  Association,  it  becomes  my 
pleasing  duty  to  present  to  you,  the  official  representative  of  the  United 
States,  by  appointment  of  the  Secretary  of  War,  this  site  and  this 
monument. 

The  site  as  located,  marks  the  extreme  advance  of  the  right  of 
the  Thirty-fourth  Regiment  on  that  eventful  I7th  of  September,  1862. 
The  blood  of  our  heroic  comrades,  who  went  down  in  death  that  day, 
and  the  blood  of  crippled  and  maimed  patriots  who  for  forty  years 
have  suffered  the  excruciating  tortures  of  incurable  wounds,  hallows 
this  spot  beyond  the  power  of  language  to  express.  The  monument 
also  represents  many  another  contest,  sealed  with  the  lives  of  our 
comrades  of  the  Thirty-fourth,  whose  sacred  ashes  lie  in  unknown, 
unsung  graves — Ball's  Bluff,  Harper's  Ferry,  Bolivar  Heights,  Charles- 
town,  Berryville,  Winchester,  Yorktown,  Williamsburg,  Fair  Oaks, 
Savage  Station,  White  Oak  Swamp,  Glendale,  Nelson's  Farm,  Charles 
City  Cross  Roads,  Malvern  Hill,  Manassas,  South  Mountain,  Antietam, 
Fredericksburg,  Chancellorsville,  all  these  are  indelibly  impressed  on 
the  memory  of  every  living  member  of  the  Thirty-fourth  Regiment, 
by  reason  of  the  loss  of  those  whose  ties  with  us  had  been  welded  in 
the  fire  of  battle.  The  mystic  chord  of  memory  .reaches  out  to 
unmarked  graves  on  a  score  of  fields,  and  the  hearts  of  living  comrades 
soften  and  their  eyes  grow  dim  with  emotion  when  at  their  firesides 
they  recall,  and  repeat  to  their  children  and  children's  children,  the 
thrilling  incidents  and  tender  memories  of  the  days  of  '6i-'65- 


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General,  this  monument  symbolizes,  is  the  epitome  of  all,  and  much 
more  than  I  have  expressed.  Take  it.  Guard  it.  Keep  it  fresh  and 
green,  that  it  may  be  preserved  for  a  thousand  years,  to  certify  the 
patriotic  sacrifice  of  the  men  whose  memories  we  to-day  honor. 

To  you  a  distinguished  veteran  of  this  historic  field,  we  entrust  it 
in  that  spirit  you  so  well  appreciate. 

GENERAL   CARMAN'S   RESPONSE,   ACCEPTING   THE    GIFT,    ON 
BEHALF  OF  THE  GOVERNMENT 

Mr.  Chairman,  Comrades  of  the  Thirty-fourth  New  York,  Ladies  and 
Gentlemen: 

"After  the  pleasant  and  interesting  exercises  in  which  we  have 
participated,  the  eloquent  address  of  your  orator,  and  that  touching 
and  inspiring  one  of  the  estimable  and  patriotic  lady  (Mrs.  Donald 
McLean ),  who  has  just  preceded  us,  it  is  expected  that  our  remarks 
shall  be  brief,  and  we  shall  detain  you  but  a  few  minutes. 

"We  stand  upon  one  of  the  great  battlefields  of  the  civil  war;  in 
some  respects  the  greatest  and  most  momentous  one.  Gettysburg  only 
exceeded  it  in  the  number  killed  and  wounded,  but  that  was  a  three 
days'  fight.  Antietam  was  but  one  day,  and  on  this  one  day  as  many 
men  were  killed  and  wounded  as  were  killed  and  wounded  in  any  two 
of  the  three  days  at  Gettysburg.  Chickamauga,  the  greatest  battle  of 
the  west,  does  not  show  the  loss,  killed  and  wounded,  for  its  two  days' 
fighting  that  Antietam  does  for  one.  The  true  test  of  the  severity  of 
a  battle  is  the  percentage  of  loss  of  those  engaged.  The  percentage  of 
loss  here  for  one  day,  on  the  Union  side,  was  20  64-100,  or  nearly  21 
for  every  100  engaged;  Chickamauga  19  60-100  for  two  days,  and  Get 
tysburg  21  20-100  per  cent,  for  three  days.  Reducing  the  equation  to 
one  day,  we  have  20  64-100  per  cent,  for  Antietam,  9  8-10  per  cent, 
for  Chickamauga,  and  7  7-100  per  cent,  for  Gettysburg.  This  shows 
the  relative  or  comparative  severity  of  the  fighting,  that  it  was  more 
than  twice  as  desperate  as  it  was  at  Chickamauga,  and  three  times  as 
desperate  as  it  was  at  Gettysburg.  The  Confederate  loss,  killed  and 
wounded,  was  24  65-100  per  cent,  of  those  engaged. 

"There  were  more  men  killed  and  wounded  on  the  Union  side  in 
the  one  day  at  Antietam,  than  in  the  two  days  battles  of  Shiloh,  Cor 
inth,  Stone  River  and  Chickamauga,  more  than  in  the  three  days  battles 
of  Fredericksburg,  Chancellorsville  and  Cold  Harbor;  more  than  in 
the  five  days  of  Groveton,  Second  Manassas,  and  Chantilly ;  more  than 
in  the  seven  days  on  the  peninsula ;  more  than  in  the  1 1  days'  campaign, 
ending  at  Appomattox ;  more  than  in  all  the  battles  around  Atlanta ; 
and  more  than  in  all  the  operations  around  Vicksburg,  including  the 
siege  from  May  I  to  July  4,  1863. 

"Between  daybreak  and  the  setting  sun  of  September  17,  1862, 
40  years  ago  this  day,  over  93,000  men  of  kindred  blood  (56,300  Union 
and  37,300  Confederate)  and  520  cannon,  engaged  on  this  field  in  a 


180  HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-FOURTH  REGIMENT 

desperate  struggle,  and  when  the  sun  went  down  and  mercifully  put 
an  end  to  the  strife  3,634  were  dead  and  17,222  wounded,  an  aggregate 
of  20,856;  Union  11,648;  Confederate  9,208.  About  1,770  were  miss 
ing,  some  of  whom  were  dead,  but  most  of  whom  were  carried  as  pris 
oners  from  the  field.  It  was  the  bloodiest  day  of  American  history. 
Every  State  from  the  great  lakes,  on  the  north,  to  the  Gulf  of  Mexico, 
on  the  south,  from  the  Atlantic  to  the  Mississippi,  and,  with  the  excep 
tion  of  Iowa  and  Missouri,  every  State  watered  by  the  Mississippi,  con 
tributed  to  this  carnival  of  death  and  suffering. 

"The  most  desperate  fighting  and  the  great  part  of  the  loss  were  in 
this  vicinity.  Here,  within  1,200  yards  of  the  Dunkard  Church,  55,728 
infantry  (Union  and  Confederate)  were  engaged  with  a  loss  of  2,854 
killed  and  13,661  wounded,  an  aggregate  of  16,515,  or  nearly  30  per 
cent,  of  the  number  engaged.  All  this  loss  occurred  before  I  p.  m., 
more  than  three-fourths  of  it  in  the  little  over  four  hours  from  6  o'clock 
to  half-past  10,  and  on  a  field  not  over  1,500  yards  from  north  to  south, 
with  an  average  width,  east  and  west,  of  900  yards,  an  area  of  about 
300  acres.  No  other  equal  area  on  the  American  continent  has  been 
so  drenched  in  human  blood. 

"And  of  this  precious  blood  of  the  young  manhood  of  America, 
you,  comrades  of  the  Thirty-fourth  New  York,  contributed  your  full 
and  generous  share.  You  came  upon  the  field  at  this  point,  at  a  most 
critical  moment,  and  attested  your  manhood  and  courage  by  holding 
a  most  exposed  position,  until,  struck  in  front  and  on  both  flanks,  you 
were  compelled  to  fall  back,  leaving  33  dead  on  the  field  and  having 
in  wounded,  over  40  per  cent,  of  the  311  engaged;  about  double  the 
average  on  the  whole  field  and  10  per  cent,  more  than  the  average  on 
this  part  of  the  field.  (The  loss  of  your  regiment  we  take  from  the 
official  records  as  published  by  the  War  Department.  We  observe  that 
the  inscription  on  your  monument  reads  43  killed  and  74  wounded). 

"The  issues  of  the  battle  were  momentous,  far  reaching  and  endur 
ing.  The  three  months  preceding  were  the  darkest  in  the  history  of 
the  country.  The  Peninsula  campaign  had  ended  in  failure;  Buell's 
army  in  the  west  was  on  the  retreat  from  Tennessee  and  Kentucky  to 
the  Ohio  river ;  Pope's  army  was  defeated  in  front  of  Washington,  and 
nowhere  was  there  a  ray  of  hope.  France  and  our  English  'kin 
beyond  the  sea'  had  long  desired  a  pretext  for  recognizing  the  Southern 
Confederacy  and  intervening  in  its  behalf,  and  had  assured  the  Southern 
leaders  that  recognition  depended  upon  Southern  victories,  and  Gen. 
Lee  declared  that  one  of  the  objects  of  his  Maryland  campaign  was  to 
gain  recognition  of  the  Confederacy  and  achieve  its  independence,  and 
when  he  crossed  the  Potomac  he  was  playing  for  this  great  stake,  and 
every  man  in  his  army,  from  general  to  drummer  boy,  knew  it. 

"The  Confederate  victories  in  June,  July  and  August  appeared 
so  conclusive  of  the  ability  of  the  South  to  maintain  itself  that,  Septem 
ber  14,  the  day  of  South  Mountain,  when  Lord  Palmerston,  prime  min 
ister  of  England,  read  in  the  Observer  the  accounts  of  Lee's  victories 
at  Second  Manassas  he  wrote  Lord  John  Russell,  secretary  for  foreign 


THE  DEDICATION  181 

affairs,  that  the  Federals  had  got  a  very  complete  smashing,  and  it 
seems  not  altogether  unlikely  that  still  greater  disasters  await  them, 
and  that  even  Washington  or  Baltimore  may  fall  into  the  hands  of  the 
Confederates,  and  suggested  that  in  this  state  of  affairs  the  time  had 
come  for  mediation  between  the  North  and  South  'upon  the  basis  of 
separation.' 

"Lord  Russell  replied  on  September  17,  while  the  battle  of  Antie- 
tam  was  in  progress,  that  he  agreed  that  'the  time  is  come  for  offering 
mediation  to  the  United  States  government,  with  a  view  to  the  recog 
nition  of  the  independence  of  the  Confederates,'  and  he  further  agreed 
that  in  case  of  failure  of  mediation  'we  ought  ourselves  to  recognize 
the  Confederate  states  as  an  independent  state,'  and  suggested  a  meet 
ing  of  the  cabinet  on  September  23  or  30  to  consider  the  matter. 
Appreciating  that  this  would  be  a  hostile  act,  he  concluded  by  saying 
'we  ought  to  make  ourselves  safe  in  Canada.' 

'Then  followed  an  exchange  of  views  among  the  leading  mem 
bers  of  the  cabinet,  resulting  in  an  informal  agreement  to  move  in  the 
matter,  and  September  23,  the  day  after  Mr.  Lincoln's  proclama 
tion  of  emancipation,  Lord  Palmerston  wrote  to  Lord  Russell  that  he 
agreed  with  him  in  his  plan  of  proceedings  about  mediation,  and  that 
the  offer  should  be  made  before  the  middle  of  October.  It  was  evident 
that  a  great  conflict  was  taking  place  northwest  of  Washington,  which 
must  have  a  great  effect  on  the  state  of  affairs,  and  if  the  Federals 
sustained  a  great  defeat  they  might  be  at  once  ready  for  mediation, 
'and  the  iron  should  be  struck  while  it  is  hot.'  On  the  other  hand, 
should  the  Federals  have  the  best  of  it  'we  may  wait  awhile,'  says  Pal 
merston,  'and  see  what  may  follow.' 

"What  followed  is  known  to  history.  Lee  was  driven  from  Mary 
land,  the  proclamation  of  emancipation  was  given  to  the  world,  and 
October  2  Palmerston  suggested  that  the  matter  of  mediation  and 
recognition  be  deferred,  and  it  was  deferred  forever.  This  was  one 
great  result  of  the  battle,  and  there  was  another  of  much  greater 
moment. 

"From  the  beginning  of  the  war  earnest  and  patriotic  men  and 
women,  recognizing  that  slavery  was  a  curse  to  the  country  and  the 
cause  of  the  war,  prayed  and  urged  that  the  institution  be  destroyed. 
P"or  a  time  that  great  and  good  man,  Abraham  Lincoln,  the  greatest 
statesman  of  his  day,  the  greatest  commander  and  the  ablest  strategist 
of  the  civil  war,  and  the  greatest  leader  of  a  free  people,  resisted  the 
pressure,  believing  that  the  time  had  not  yet  come,  but  knowing  that 
it  would  come,  and  when  Lee  crossed  the  Potomac  into  Maryland,  he 
registered  a  vow  that  should  he  be  driven  back  he  would  free  the  slave. 
Lee  was  driven  back  and,  on  September  22,  came  that  immortal  paper, 
the  preliminary  proclamation  of  emancipation.  To  use  Mr.  Lincoln's 
words  'When  Lee  recrossed  the  Potomac  I  threw  the  proclamation 
after  him.' 

"Here  was  made  history,  here  was  rolled  back  the  first  Confed 
erate  invasion  of  the  North ;  on  this  field  was  arrested  the  recognition 


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of  the  Southern  Confederacy  and  foreign  intervention;  on  this  field 
died  human  slavery. 

"It  is  eminently  proper,  men  of  the  Thirty-fourth  New  York,  that 
on  this  ground,  hallowed  and  consecrated  by  the  blood  of  your  com 
rades,  you  should  perpetuate  in  enduring  stone  what  you  suffered  and 
did  here  that  our  beloved  country  should  live. 

"You  come  here  to  perform  this  gracious  duty  when  all  is  at  peace. 
The  scene  is  different  from  that  of  40  years  ago.  You  see  the  same 
blue  mountains  beyond  the  Potomac,  the  same  blue  hills  of  Maryland 
are  here,  enclosing  entrancing  valleys,  the  same  rippling  Antietam 
carries  its  sparkling  waters  to  the  Potomac,  and  the  Potomac  still  runs 
to  the  sea,  and  there  is  the  same  blue  sky  above  us,  looking  down  upon 
this  smiling  valley,  with  its  orchards,  fields  of  corn  and  luxuriant  grass, 
but  the  ground  is  not  now  plowed  with  shot  and  shell  and  harrowed 
with  bullets ;  no  more  is  it  moistened  and  crimsoned  with  human  blood ; 
battle-death  and  suffering  have  disappeared. 

'There  are  domes  of  flowers  where  stood  the  white  tent 
There  are  plows  in  the  tracks  where  the  war  wagons  went; 
There  are  songs  where  only  was  Rachel's  lament.' 

"Mr.  Chairman,  I  congratulate  you,  your  committee,  and  your 
comrades  upon  the  beauty  and  appropriate  character  of  your  monu 
ment;  it  is  an  ornament  to  the  field.  In  behalf  of  the  United  States, 
and  under  instructions  from  the  Secretary  of  War,  I  accept  its  perpetual 
custody.  A  grateful  government  will  give  it  the  same  tender  care 
that  it  gives  your  comrades  who  fell  here,  and  who  now  repose  in  yon 
der  peaceful  cemetery  that  crowns  with  beauty  the  ridge  that  looks 
down  upon  the  Antietam." 

LETTER  FROM  CAPTAIN  NORTHUP 

Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  September  10,  1902. 

Dear  Colonel  Suiter,  and  Comrades  of  the  Thirty-fourth  N.  Y.  Vols., 
Battle-field,  Antietam,  Md. 

It  will  be  a  great  disappointment  to  me  not  to  be  present  with  you 
at  the  unveiling  of  your  beautiful  monument  Sept.  I7th,  just  forty  years 
from  the  time  we  fought  so  heroically  on  that  sacred  spot — made  so 
with  the  life  blood  of  many  of  our  noble  boys  from  Herkimer  County 
and  New  York.  But  I  am  reminded  that  I  must  be  brief,  for  you  will 
hear  from  other  comrades,  and  from  those  who  will  address  you  as 
speakers  of  the  occasion.  I  would  gladly  write  at  length  and  give  a 
thrilling  report  of  scenes  witnessed  that  day,  did  time  permit.  I  wrote 
a  personal  letter  to  Lieut.  Chapin,  and  he  will  perhaps  mention  in  his 
remarks  some  messages  that  I  asked  him  to  deliver  to  several  of  the 
comrades  who  were  so  very  kind  to  me  after  I  was  wounded,  and  state 
how  I  was  permitted  to  cross  Antietam,  or  Sharpsburg  Creek,  before 
going  into  battle ;  also  tell  how  the  flag  was  carried  from  the  field,  and 
how  many  rallied  after  we  had  fallen  back. 


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No  one  can  ever  know  how  I  earnestly  long  to  meet  you,  my  dear 
Colonel  and  Comrades,  once  more  before  answering  to  the  final  roll- 
call,  and  talk  over  again  the  scenes  we  passed  through  together  in  our 
army  life,  but  in  all  human  probability  1  shall  never  have  that  privilege. 
In  any  event,  may  we  each  resolve  to  do  our  very  best,  and  to  follow 
the  noble  example  and  teachings  of  the  Captain  of  our  Salvation,  and 
at  last  hear  the  welcome  plaudit  "Well  done  thou  good  and  faithful 
servant,  enter  thou  into  the  joy  of  thy  Lord." 

Fraternally, 

E.  S.  NORTHUP. 


LETTER  FROM  COLONEL  SUITER 

Herkimer,  N.  Y.,  September  i6th,  1902. 

To  the  Officers  and  Members  of  the  Thirty-fourth  Regiment  N.  Y.  Vol. 
Association.  My  Dear  Comrades: 

It  is  with  feelings  of  the  deepest  regret  that  the  infirmities  of  old 
age,  I  being  now  past  eighty-six  years,  prevent  my  being  present  with 
you  this  memorial  day,  and  to  clasp  your  hands  on  this  field  where 
forty  years  ago  to-day  we  participated  in  the  hard  fought  battle  of 
Antietam. 

September  I7th,  1895,  seven  years  ago,  our  Association  passed  a 
resolution  that  I  appoint  a  committee  of  three  members  of  the  Associa 
tion  to  procure  information,  and  make  arrangements  for  the  erection 
of  a  suitable  monument  to  our  memory  on  this  field.  The  beautiful 
monument  before  you  testifies  more  than  I  can  express  to  you,  how  well 
and  faithfully  they  have  performed  the  work  assigned  to  them. 

As  each  year  rolls  by  and  we  gather  at  our  annual  reunions,  we 
look  in  vain  for  some  familiar  faces,  but  they  are  missing.  The  num 
ber  each  succeeding  year  grows  smaller.  Soon  we  will  all  be  gathered 
to  our  permanent  camping  ground,  but  this  monument,  the  testimonial 
of  an  appreciative  state  and  liberal  county,  will  ever  stand  as  a  memorial 
to  the  memory  of  the  gallant  old  Thirty- fourth  Regiment. 

Permit  me  again  to  say  how  sincerely  I  regret  my  being  compelled 
by  my  old  age  and  enfeebled  condition  from  being  present  at  this  our 
annual  reunion,  and  the  dedication  of  our  monument,  and  to  thank  the 
comrades  of  the  monument  committee  for  the  able  manner  in  which 
they  have  carried  out  the  resolution,  passed  by  you  September  I7th, 

1895. 

May  God  bless  and  preserve  you  all. 

Respectfully  yours, 

JAMES  A..  SUITER,  Pres't. 


184  HISTORY  OF   THE  THIRTY-FOURTH    REGIMENT 


No.  30. 
REPORT  OF  COL.  SUITER  ON  THE  BATTLE  OF  FAIR  OAKS 

FAIR  OAKS,  IN  FRONT  OF  RICHMOND,  VA.,  June  3,  1862. 
In  pursuance  of  orders  I  beg  leave  to  submit  the  following  report : 
I  left  camp,  near  Tyler's  house,  on  the  north  side  of  Chickahominy,  at  about 
2  o'clock  P.M.  on  Saturday,  the  3ist  day  of  May,  1862,  preceded  by  the  First 
Minnesota  Regiment  and  followed  by  the  Eighty-second  New  York  (Second 
New  York  Militia)  .Regiment,  Gorman's  Brigade.  We  passed  up  the  river 
about  i£  miles,  when  we  crossed,  encountering  great  difficulties  in  passing  the 
low  Ian <is  adjacent  to  the  south  bank  of  the  river,  occasioned  by  an  overflow  of 
the  banks  of  the  stream,  the  men  having  some  of  the  way  to  march  through  the 
water  and  mud  waist  deep.  We  arrived  on  this  field  about  5.30  P.M.  I  imme 
diately  formed  my  command  in  line,  its  right  near  the  house  on  the  high  ground 
and  extending  thence  easterly  along  a  post-and-rail  fence  toward  the  wood  in 
that  direction,  two  pieces  of  artillery  (a  portion  of  Rickett's  Battery,)  being 
posted  on  the  opposite  side  of  said  house,  the  First  Minnesota  Regiment  filing 
off  and  forming  in  line  of  battle  on  the  right,  their  line  extending  along  and 
past  a  piece  of  woods  situated  on  the  westerly  side  of  said  house  and  about  150 
yards  distant  from  it,  the  Eighty-second  New  York  forming  in  our  rear,  their 
line  parallel  with  ours. 

About  this  time  we  heard  volleys  of  musketry  on  the  westerly  side  of  the 
house.  I  was  ordered  to  forward  in  line  over  the  fence,  and  then  formed  on  the 
right  into  line.  While  I  was  executing  the  last-mentioned  movement  the  right 
of  my  line  received  heavy  volleys  of  musketry  from  the  direction  of  the  woods 
on  the  west  side  of  the  house,  which  was  returned  by  my  command  as  it  arrived 
on  the  line.  The  Eighty-second  New  York  wheeled  into  line  on  my  right, 
its  right  resting  upon  and  supporting  the  battery,  its  left  on  my  right.  The 
firing  became  general  along  the  whole  line  and  continued  so  for  some  time,  the  \ 
enemy  several  times  emerging  from  the  woods,  evidently  with  the  intention 
of  charging  upon  and  capturing  the  guns  above  mentioned,  but  were  as  often 
repulsed  and  driven  back. 

About  7.30  o'clock  the  enemy  were  seen  to  file  out  of  the  woods  on  the  west, 
evidently  with  the  intention  of  outflanking  and  turning  our  left.  About  this  time 
the  Twentieth  Massachusetts  Regiment  wheeled  into  line  in  continuation  of  ours 
and  on  our  left.  A  few  well-directed  volleys  repulsed  the  enemy  at  this  point 
and  drove  them  back  under  cover  of  the  woods.  About  a  quarter  of  8  o'clock  I 
was  ordered  to  charge  the  enemy  with  the  bayonet  in  the  woods,  which  we  did 
in  good  order,  pouring  into  them  a  withering  and  deadly  fire  as  we  charged, 
the  enemy  standing  their  ground  till  my  command  mounted  the  fence  on  the 
skirt  of  the  woods,  when  they  broke  and  ran  in  great  confusion.  We  followed 
them  about  20  rods,  when  we  lost  sight  of  them  in  the  darkness.  I  was  ordered 
to  withdraw  my  command,  which  I  did,  and  formed  it  in  the  field  just  outside 
of  the  wood,  when  we  rested  for  the  night. 

My  loss  during  the  engagement  was  19  killed,  76  wounded,  and  3  missing.* 
Three  of  the  wounded  have  since  died. 

The  officers,  non-commissioned  officers,  and  men  of  my  command  manifested 
the  utmost  degree  of  courage  and  bravery  during  the  whole  engagement. 

I  was  assisted  in  the  field  by  Lieutenant-Colonel  Byron  Laflin,  Major  Charles 
L.  Brown,  and  Adjutant  George  W.  Thompson,  all  of  whom  rendered  invaluable 
services.  Their  conduct,  as  well  as  that  of  my  entire  command,  throughout 
the  engagement,  cannot  be  too  highly  commended. 

All  of  which  is  most  respectfully  submitted. 

JAMES   A.  SUITER, 

Colonel,  commanding  Thirty-fourth  New  York  Volunteers. 
Brigadier-General  WILLIS  A.   GORMAN,  Commanding. 


OFFICIAL     REPORTS. 

No.  85. 
COLONEL  SUITER'S  REPORT  ON  FIRST  FREDERICKSBURG 

NEAR  FALMOUTH,  VA.,  December  iyth,   1862. 

SIR:  In  obedience  to  orders  from  brigade  headquarters,  I  would  submit  the 
following  report  of  the  part  taken  by  my  command  in  the  movements  from  the 
nth  to  1 6th  instant. 

I  received  orders  to  march  at  6.30  A.M.  on  the  nth.  We  marched  to  within 
about  three-quarters  of  a  mile  of  Fredericksburg,  where  we  halted  in  rear  of  a 
high  point  of  land  until  about  5  P.M.  ;  were  then  moved  forward  to  the  river,  and 
immediately  crossed  over  under  a  severe  fire  of  shell  from  rebel  batteries  on  the 
heights  beyond  the  city,  and  from  musketry  from  rebel  troops  in  the  city. 
Having  gained  the  opposite  side,  my  regiment  was  moved  to  the  right  of  the 
road  on  the  river,  protected  by  a  high  bank,  the  men  lying  down.  Three  of  my 
•companies  were  sent  to  picket  the  street  at  my  right,  with  orders  to  closely 
watch  the  movements  of  the  enemy. 

At  daylight  I  moved  my  regiment  on  the  first  street  running  parallel  with 
the  river;  was  halted  here  for  a  few  hours;  was  then  moved  to  a  position  on 
Princess  Anne  street,  sending  one  company  to  picket  at  or  near  the  house  on  the 
bluff  at  the  extreme  right  of  the  city,  the  enemy  occasionally  shelling  us  from 
their  position  on  the  heights  beyond  the  city. 

On  the  morning  of  the  i3th  I  was  ordered  to  the  front  to  support  the  troops 
then  engaged  with  the  enemy.  I  was  ordered  to  put  my  regiment  in  position 
near  the  graveyard,  on  the  outskirts  of  the  city.  We  lay  in  this  position  but  a 
few  minutes,  when  I  was  ordered  to  leave  for  another  position.  This  was 
accomplished  with  the  loss  of  but  one  man,  Lieutenant  Ransom,  mortally 
wounded  by  the  explosion  of  a  shell.  We  moved  to  the  left  until  we  gained  the 
street  leading  to  the  battle-field.  In  moving  down  this  street  I  lost  one  man, 
killed. 

Having  gained  a  point,  we  moved  by  the  right  flank  over  the  field  on  the 
right  of  the  road,  until  we  gained,  the  hill,  and  took  a  position  at  the  base  at 
about  4  P.M.,  my  line  being  the  third;  the  fighting  at  this  time  becoming  severe 
in  front  and  to  the  left  of  my  line. 

About  5  P.M.  General  Tyler's  Brigade  came  upon  the  field  with  loud  cheers. 
This  attracting  the  attention  of  the  enemy,  they  opened  upon  my  line  with 
shell,  killing  and  wounding  many  of  my  command.  General  Sully  coming  upon 
the  field  at  this  time,  caused  this  brigade  to  again  move  off,  which  they  did,  in 
great  confusion.  By  command  of  General  Sully  I  now  moved  my  regiment  to  a 
position  in  rear  of  the  brick  tannery,  my  right  resting  near  the  plank  road. 
When  it  became  dark,  I  threw  one  of  my  companies  on  the  right  of  the  road, 
forming  a  line  of  pickets  in  front  of  the  rifle-pits  of  the  enemy.  At  about  3  A.M. 
I  was  relieved  by  the  Fourth  Regular  Infantry.  I  returned  to  the  city  and  took 
a  position  on  Princess  Anne  street  at  about  4  A.M.,  lying  in  this  position  until 

9   A.M. 

On  the  morning  of  the  i4th,  by  order,  I  again  moved  my  command  to  near 
the  railroad;  lay  here  until  about  i  P.M.,  when  I  was  ordered  to  Farquhar 
street,  and  took  position  upon  the  west  side  of  the  street;  lay  here  until  about 
5  P.M.,  when  I  was  ordered  to  my  former  position,  near  the  railroad. 

At  7  P.M.  detailed  75  men  for  fatigue  duty  to  throw  up  earthworks.  Being 
absent  about  one  hour,  they  returned  to  the  regiment,  the  work  having  been 
abandoned.  At  about  10  P.M.  received  an  order  to  again  fall  in  and  return  to 
this  camp,  which  was  accomplished,  arriving  at  about  2  A.M.  on  the  i6th.  My 
loss  during  this  time  was  3  killed,  12  wounded,  and  18  missing. 

I  take  great  pleasure  in  stating  that  my  command  behaved  most  gallantly 
during  the  whole  time  they  were  under  the  terrific  fire  from  the  enemy's  batteries, 
not  a  man  leaving  the  ranks. 


i86  HISTORY   OF  THE   THIRTY-FOURTH   REGIMENT 


I  would  also  state  that  some  cowardly  members  of  a  regiment  (unknown) 
abandoned  their  colors,  which  were  recovered  by  Captain   Northup,   of  my 
regiment,  and  saved  the  disgrace  of  falling  into  the  hands  of  the  enemy. 
All  of  which  is  respectfully  submitted. 
Your  obedient  servant, 

JAMES  A.  SUITER, 

Colonel,  Commanding. 
Captain  J.  H.  PELL,  Assistant  Adjutant  General. 


REPORT   OF   LIEUTENANT-COLONEL    BEVERLY   ON   "SECOND 
FREDERICKSBURG" 

CAMP  NEAR  FALMOUTH,  VA.,  May  8,   1863. 
Lieutenant: 

I  have  the  honor  to  report  that,  in  compliance  with  orders  received  from 
headquarters,  this  command  left  camp  at  or  about  12  o'clock  on  the  night 
of  the  ad  instant.  On  arriving  at  the  Lacy  house,  opposite  Fredericksburg, 
we  halted,  and  remained  resting  on  arms  until  sunrise.  While  here  Colonel 
Byron  Laflin  was  called  to  the  command  of  the  brigade,  and  I  assumed  com 
mand  of  the  regiment.  The  call  for  one  lieutenant  and  25  men  as  volunteers 
for  special  services  was  answered  with  promptness,  and  it  is  gratifying  to  know 
that  1 8  of  the  number  were  of  those  who  claimed  their  discharge  from  the  service 
the  day  before.  At  6  o'clock  or  thereabouts,  the  regiment,  left  in  front,  crossed 
the  bridge  and  entered  the  city. 

After  filing  into  Princess  Anne  street,  arms  were  stacked  and  the  men 
allowed  to  rest.  Not  long  after,  orders  came  to  move  to  the  right.  Our 
course  lay  over  an  open  field,  in  full  view  of  the  enemy,  and,  as  a  consequence, 
we  were  greatly  exposed  to  the  fire  of  his  batteries.  Shell  and  solid  shot 
burst  among  or  passed  through  the  ranks,  but  I  am  happy  to  state  that  but 
4  men  were  wounded,  and  no  one  seriously.  During  this  trying  time  every 
man,  as  far  as  I  could  discern,  was  in  his  place,  and  as  cool  and  collected  as  it 
is  possible  for  men  to  be  in  like  circumstances.  Reaching  the  right,  a  canal 
stopped  our  advance,  and  we  halted  near  the  river  awaiting  orders.  Between 
ii  and  12  o'clock,  General  Sedgwick  having  captured  the  heights,  I  returned 
to  the  city  with  my  command,  passed  through  and  went  up  on  to  the  heights, 
resting  at  noon  upon  the  second  crest.  While  here  I  received  orders  to  return. 
I  again  passed  through  the  city,  recrossed  the  river,  and  went  into  camp  on  the 
heights  opposite. 

The  command  has  remained  here  since  that  time.  As  before  intimated, 
the  loss  is  slight,  numbering  2  slightly  wounded,  i  severely,  and  i  missing. 

I  am  happy  to  state  that  I  have  no  complaint  to  make  of  the  conduct  of 
the  men,  either  on  the  march  or  while  exposed  to  the  enemy's  fire.  With 
the  exception  of  the  wounded  and  i  man  missing,  all  the  command  is  present 
and  ready  for  duty.  I  would  state  that  I  was  most  ably  assisted  throughout 
the  day  by  Major  Sponable  and  Adjutant  Kirk. 

I  would  also  make  mention  of  Lieutenant  James  McCormick,  of  Company  H, 
the  volunteer  officer  for  special  service.  Though  not  under  my  special  super 
vision,  I  learn  that  he  bore  himself  most  nobly  and  bravely  during  the  entire  day. 

I  have  the  honor  to  be,  your  obedient  servant, 

JOHN  BEVERLY, 
Lieutenant  Colonel,  Commanding  Thirty-fourth  Regiment , 

New  York  Volunteers. 
Lieutenant  ANDREW   LEVERING,  Acting  Assistant  Adjutant  General. 


OFFICIAL  REPORTS  187 

THIS  COMPLETES  THE  RECORD 

The  following  correspondence  explains  itself: 

HOTEL  MARGARET,  BROOKLYN,  N.  Y.,  April  18,  1902. 
Hon.  ELIHU  ROOT, 

Secretary  of  War, 

Washington,  D.  C., 

DEAR  SIR: — I  enclose  you  herewith  the  deed  of  a  plot  of  ground,  which  the 
above  regimental  organization,  the  Veteran  Association  of  the  Thirty-fourth 
Regiment  of  Volunteer  Infantry,  has  lately  acquired  on  the  old  battle-field  of 
Antietam,  at  Sharpsburg,  Md.  We  have  taken  the  liberty  to  have  this  deed 
made  out  directly  to  the  Government  of  the  United  States.  We  trust  that 
the  Government  will  see  fit  to  accept  the  deed,  and  to  give  the  plot  such  care 
and  attention  as  may  be  necessary  in  the  future.  We  are  now  having  a  splendid 
granite  monument  erected  on  the  plot,  and  the  same  will  be  dedicated  on  the 
coming  anniversary  of  the  battle,  September  17  next.  We  have  conferred 
with  your  representative  at  Antietam,  Mr.  Charles  W.  Adams,  and  he  has 
advised  us  that  we  should  send  the  deed  directly  to  you. 

We  consider  that  our  monument  will  be  one  of  the  finest  contributions  thus 
far  made  to  that  historic  field,  and  we  are  hoping  that  the  Government  will  see 
its  way  clear  to  accepting  the  gift,  and  through  its  representatives,  giving  the 
monument  and  plot  all  needful  care  and  attention  in  the  future. 

I  have  the  honor  to  remain, 

Very  truly  yours, 

L.  N.  CHAPIN, 

Secretary  Monument  Com. 


WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

WASHINGTON,  June  18,   1902. 

DEAR  SIR: — Referring  to  your  letter  of  April  i8th  last  transmitting,  on 
behalf  of  the  Veteran  Association,  Thirty-fourth  Regiment,  Volunteer  Infantry, 
State  of  New  York,  deed  of  a  plot  of  ground  on  the  battle-field  of  Antietam,  and 
replying  to  your  further  communication  of  nth  instant,  on  the  subject,  I  beg 
to  inform  you  that  under  authority  of  the  Act  of  Congress  approved  August 
30,  1890  (26th  Stats.  401),  "authorizing  the  Secretary  of  War  to  acquire  land 
by  purchase  or  gift,  for  the  purpose  of  marking  the  lines  at  Antietam,"  I  hereby 
accept  the  conveyance  above  referred  to,  on  behalf  of  the  United  States. 

The  delay  incident  to  the  acknowledgment  and  acceptance  of  the  conveyance 
was  occasioned  by  the  necessity  of  having  the  deed  duly  recorded,  as  the  laws 
of  Maryland  provide  that 

"  No  deed  of  real  property  shall  be  valid  for  the  purpose  of  passing  title  unless  acknowledged 
and  recorded  as  herein  directed.  (Public  General  Laws  of  Maryland,  Vol.  i,  Article  21,  Section  15, 
page  255-) 

Very  respectfully, 

ELIHU  ROOT, 

Secretary  of  War. 
Mr.  L.  N.  CHAPIN,  Secretary, 

Veteran  Association,  &c.,  &c., 
Hotel  Margaret, 

Brooklvn,  N.  Y. 


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"THE  BIVOUAC  OF  THE  DEAD 


Us  man  map.,  be  fougbt  bis  figbt, 

proves  bis  trutb  bg  bis  enDeavor; 
Xet  bim  sleep  in  solemn  rite, 
Sleep  forever  ano  forever, 
fcav.  bim  low,  las  bim  low, 
Hn  tbe  clover  or  tbe  snow; 

cares  be?  be  cannot  know, 
bim  low!" 


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